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

123,848people · 2025+8829.2% since 2015

Refugees living in the country, under UNHCR's mandate. Annual figures for Nigeria from 1976 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025123,848
202496,387
202369,940
202291,275
202177,132
202066,056
201954,157
201834,727
20171,910
20161,357
20151,387
20141,237
20131,688
20123,151
20118,803
20108,744
20099,129
200810,127
20078,463
20068,761
20059,017
20048,395
20039,173
20027,353
20017,201
20007,271
19996,942
19986,782
19979,071
19968,486
19958,118
19946,025
19934,819
19924,782
19913,573
19903,571
19893,781
19885,173
19875,100
19864,760
19855,880
19844,570
19834,620
19825,240
198189,570
1980100,000
1979400
1978370
1977300
197650

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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