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Senegal
Senegal — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Most refugees from here are now in United StatesLargest origin of refugees hosted here: MauritaniaPeak: 90,000 hosted in 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 19,803 | 130 |
| Sierra Leone | 219 | 495 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 563 |
| Liberia | 228 | 208 |
| Rwanda | 314 | 32 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 123 |
| Congo | 19 | 110 |
| DR Congo | 19 | 85 |
| Burundi | 79 | 15 |
| Chad | 31 | 21 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Guinea-Bissau | 6,554 | 0 |
| Gambia | 4,230 | 0 |
| South Africa | 0 | 655 |
| United States | 109 | 136 |
| Canada | 58 | 20 |
| Argentina | 32 | 38 |
| France | 45 | 0 |
| Central African Rep. | 18 | 19 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 6 | 20 |
| Sweden | 11 | 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 a3bf514b · 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 | 1963 | 1963 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1988 | 1988 | 2025 | 38/38 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1963 | 2000 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1988 | 2000 | 2025 | 38/38 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1963 | 2025 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1988 | 2025 | 2025 | 38/38 | — |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1963 | 1967 | 2025 | 63/63 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1988 | 1992 | 2025 | 38/38 | — |
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).