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Ethiopia: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

148,616people · 2025+93.8% since 2015

People from the country whose claim for asylum elsewhere has not yet been decided. Annual figures for Ethiopia from 2000 to 2025.

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025148,616
2024158,142
2023139,424
2022121,362
2021139,211
2020125,072
2019135,267
2018133,254
2017133,659
201678,854
201576,680
201461,368
201349,315
201241,902
201138,827
201048,883
200948,733
200831,506
200729,469
200616,670
200516,216
200413,098
200310,805
20028,956
200112,305
200014,551

Source

Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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UNHCR (2026). Asylum-seekers, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-asylum-seekers-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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