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Sudan
Sudan — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
9.9% of the world’s refugees fled from here#9 host country for refugees (2025)Refugees hosted ×2.62 in ten years
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eritrea | 367,735 | 0 |
| Ethiopia | 34,132 | 3,203 |
| Uganda | 8,577 | 0 |
| Chad | 4,400 | 0 |
| Somalia | 43 | 0 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 212,156 | 640 |
| DR Congo | 72,910 | 18 |
| Ethiopia | 71,732 | 0 |
| Kenya | 55,585 | 775 |
| Central African Rep. | 36,151 | 86 |
| Chad | 17,436 | 249 |
| Egypt | 2,833 | 8,727 |
| United States | 10,754 | 374 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 2,793 | 3,773 |
| Canada | 2,968 | 332 |
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 | 1967 | 1967 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1963 | 1963 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1967 | 2000 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1963 | 2000 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1967 | 2004 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1963 | 2004 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1967 | 2003 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1963 | 1997 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1967 | 1969 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1963 | 1966 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Returned IDPs | Hosting | 1967 | 2006 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Returned IDPs | Originating | 1963 | 2006 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Host community | Hosting | 1967 | 2023 | 2025 | 59/59 | — |
| Host community | Originating | 1963 | 2023 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
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).