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

478,150people · 2025+184.7% since 2015

Refugees from the country, wherever they now live, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for Nigeria from 1968 to 2025.

19702025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025478,150
2024467,605
2023410,308
2022391,120
2021383,660
2020352,960
2019295,578
2018276,834
2017238,977
2016229,290
2015167,973
201490,936
201331,173
201218,017
201117,140
201015,645
200915,609
200814,170
200713,898
200613,242
200522,123
200423,882
200324,414
200224,559
20016,077
20005,735
19994,440
19983,998
19973,043
19964,751
19951,942
1994587
199395
199275
199122
199015
198915
198815
19875
19700
19692,850
196851,100

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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