UNHCR · Conflict & Displacement

Somalia: Asylum-seekers, by country of origin

236,271people · 2025+317.0% since 2015

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

20002025

Every year

YearValue (people)Note
2025236,271
2024237,183
2023179,224
202256,893
202159,605
202053,824
201953,083
201855,852
201758,320
201660,491
201556,664
201449,063
201335,665
201233,680
201131,238
201022,811
200921,059
200820,519
200716,424
200622,010
200530,466
200420,517
200314,772
200213,945
200116,195
200011,971

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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