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Kenya: Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin

13,325people · 2025+68.6% since 2015

Refugees from the country, wherever they now live, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for Kenya from 1975 to 2025.

19752025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
202513,325
202411,696
20238,004
20227,595
20217,529
20207,422
20197,705
20187,480
20177,567
20167,526
20157,902
20148,546
20138,580
20128,946
20118,731
20108,585
20099,609
20089,682
20077,544
20065,356
20054,638
20043,842
20033,159
20023,089
20012,551
20002,367
19996,131
19986,037
19979,563
19969,390
19959,320
19948,772
199383
199261
199131
19907
197980
197880
19771,200
197590

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). Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of origin. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-refugees-by-origin (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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