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Nigeria: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

56,176people · 2025+9.4% since 2015

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

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
202556,176
202487,289
202368,852
202283,402
202183,105
202073,233
2019112,382
201884,624
201791,924
201666,862
201551,353
201430,075
201321,332
201214,159
201110,519
201011,912
20099,637
200810,449
20079,725
20068,361
200514,015
200413,254
200314,647
20027,651
20014,133
20003,457

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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