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Côte d'Ivoire
Name as used by UNHCR: Cote d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Refugees hosted ×37.84 in ten yearsMost refugees from here are now in FranceLargest origin of refugees hosted here: Burkina Faso
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Year-end 0
Not reported
UNHCR footnotes (4)
- All · STA · Now in — Figure is based on a Government estimate of individuals who themselves or whose parents or grandparents migrated to Côte d’Ivoire before or just after independence and who did not establish their nationality at independence or before the nationality law changed in 1972. The estimate is derived in part from cases denied voter registration in 2010 because electoral authorities could not determine their nationality at the time. The estimation is adjusted to reflect the number of persons who acquired nationality through the special ‘acquisition of nationality by declaration’ procedure until end of 2016. The estimate does not include individuals of unknown parentage who were abandoned as children and who are not considered as nationals under Ivorian law.
- All · STA · Now in — The new statelessness figure is based on a 2019 mapping study jointly conducted by the Government and UNHCR.
- All · STA · Now in — The statelessness figure is based on a 2019 mapping study jointly conducted by the Government and UNHCR.
- All · STA · Now in — The statelessness figure is based on a Government estimate of individuals who themselves or whose parents or grandparents migrated to Côte d’Ivoire before or just after independence and who did not establish their nationality at independence or before the nationality law changed in 1972. The estimate is derived in part from cases denied voter registration in 2010 because electoral authorities could not determine their nationality at the time. The estimation is adjusted to reflect the number of persons who acquired nationality through the special ‘acquisition of nationality by declaration’ procedure until end of 2016. The estimate does not include individuals of unknown parentage who were abandoned as children and who are not considered as nationals under Ivorian law.
1951–2025 time series
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Age and sex (0)
Age and sex (2010)
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Top countries of origin
Top countries of origin (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 117,749 | 1,208 |
| Sierra Leone | 1,779 | 0 |
| Congo | 453 | 677 |
| Rwanda | 258 | 110 |
| DR Congo | 87 | 179 |
| Burundi | 97 | 12 |
| Viet Nam | 75 | 0 |
| Ghana | 57 | 6 |
| Cambodia | 34 | 0 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 9 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 375 | 0 |
| United States | 189 | 128 |
| South Africa | 0 | 250 |
| Canada | 102 | 60 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 17 | 86 |
| Germany | 0 | 91 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 40 |
| Sweden | 33 | 0 |
| Belgium | 28 | 0 |
| Spain | 12 | 0 |
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 31 December 2025; retrieved 19 August 2026). UNHCR · CC-BY-4.0
Sources
| Source | License | data as of | retrieved | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — country list | CC-BY-4.0 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — population figures | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — demographics | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR (data: IDMC) — IDMC internal displacement figures via UNHCR API | CC-BY-IGO | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — solutions | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — asylum applications | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| UNHCR — Refugee Population Statistics Database — footnotes | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| United Nations, DESA, Population Division — World Population Prospects 2024 — total population by sex | CC-BY-3.0-IGO | 2023-07-01 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
| Natural Earth (via world-atlas) — Admin 0 – Countries, 1:50m | Public Domain | 2022-05-01 | 2026-08-19 | up to date |
Snapshot f1a2b53a · Methodology · Boundaries
Data coverage
How complete is the record for this country — metric by metric.
| Value | Hosting / Originating | First reported | First non-zero | Last reported | Years reported | Longest gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refugees | Hosting | 1969 | 1969 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Refugees | Originating | 1991 | 1991 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1969 | 2000 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1991 | 2000 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1969 | 2002 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1991 | 2002 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2012 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1969 | 2011 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1991 | 2011 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1969 | 1987 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1991 | 2003 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
| Returned IDPs | Hosting | 1969 | 2006 | 2025 | 47/57 | 6 yr |
| Returned IDPs | Originating | 1991 | 2006 | 2025 | 35/35 | — |
A missing year is not zero — it is missing. And the start of counting is not the start of events: several metrics only began collection later (stateless 2004, OIP 2018; the IDP series runs from 1993 and switches to IDMC compilation in 2009).