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Mauritania: Refugees under UNHCR's mandate, by country of asylum

301,490people · 2025+289.6% since 2015

Refugees living in the country, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for Mauritania from 1987 to 2025.

19872025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025301,490
2024155,193
2023112,549
2022100,981
2021101,942
202093,607
201984,900
201883,183
201777,424
201674,146
201577,390
201475,628
201392,766
201280,500
201126,535
201026,709
200926,789
200827,036
200730,465
2006771
2005627
2004473
2003475
2002398
2001363
2000350
1999221
199826
19977,512
199615,877
199534,392
199482,225
199351,548
199237,500
199135,200
199060,000
198915,000
198750

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 asylum. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-refugees-hosted (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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