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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe — forced displacement statistics — 1951–2025.
Most refugees from here are now in South AfricaLargest origin of refugees hosted here: DR CongoPeak: 237,713 hosted in 1992
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 (3)
- All · STA · Now in — A study is being pursued to provide a revised estimate of statelessness figure.
- All · STA · Now in — A study is being pursued to provide a revised estimate of the statelessness figure.
- All · STA · Now in — A study is being pursued to provide a revised estimate of this figure.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,914 | 16 |
| Rwanda | 1,415 | 24 |
| Burundi | 406 | 9 |
| Ethiopia | 96 | 7 |
| Afghanistan | 82 | 0 |
| Angola | 74 | 0 |
| Sudan | 34 | 0 |
| Somalia | 24 | 6 |
| Mauritius | 24 | 0 |
| Sierra Leone | 22 | 0 |
Top host countries
Top host countries (2000)
| Country | Refugees | Asylum-seekers |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 7 | 166 |
| United Kingdom | 80 | 0 |
| United States | 17 | 6 |
| Australia | 0 | 22 |
| Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 | 10 |
| Botswana | 5 | 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 | 1980 | 1980 | 2025 | 46/46 | — |
| Refugees | Originating | 1975 | 1975 | 2025 | 50/51 | 1 yr |
| Asylum-seekers | Hosting | 1980 | 2000 | 2025 | 46/46 | — |
| Asylum-seekers | Originating | 1975 | 2000 | 2025 | 50/51 | 1 yr |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Hosting | 1980 | 2011 | 2025 | 46/46 | — |
| Internally displaced (IDPs) | Originating | 1975 | 2011 | 2025 | 50/51 | 1 yr |
| Stateless persons | Hosting | 2004 | 2015 | 2025 | 22/22 | — |
| Others of concern | Hosting | 1980 | 2011 | 2025 | 46/46 | — |
| Others of concern | Originating | 1975 | 2011 | 2025 | 50/51 | 1 yr |
| Returned refugees | Hosting | 1980 | 1987 | 2025 | 46/46 | — |
| Returned refugees | Originating | 1975 | 1975 | 2025 | 50/51 | 1 yr |
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).