Number of asylum seekers in Africa 2020, by country

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Saifaddin Galal,
Jan 31, 2024
The majority of asylum seekers in Africa live in South Africa, Zambia, and Egypt. South Africa has the largest number of asylum seekers, around 188 thousand as of June 2020. The most common nationalities of asylum seekers in South Africa are Bangladeshi, Congolese, and Ethiopian.

African countries with the most asylum seekers as of 2020

CharacteristicNumber of asylum seekers
South Africa 188,235
Zambia 61,137
Egypt 59,501
Kenya 51,566
Libya 44,277
Malawi 33,169
Angola 30,276
United Rep. of Tanzania 29,595
Uganda 28,261
Mozambique 21,562
Sudan 15,287
Somalia 15,262
Congo 13,696
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Release date

April 2021

Region

Africa

Survey time period

June 2020

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Only countries with more than 1,000 asylum seekers.

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