Burundi

UNHCR's response focuses on providing assistance and protection for the forcibly displaced in the country as well as promoting refugee inclusion in the national system, enhancing their self-sufficiency, and supporting their integration.

 

$101.2 million

are urgently needed from January to December 2025

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Pascaline is a Congolese refugee living in the Nyankanda refugee camp in Burundi, where she takes care of her family. Pascaline lives with hypertension and regularly goes to the clinic in the camp. With support from the World Diabetes Foundation, UNHCR is strengthening our response to non communicable diseases. © UNHCR/Sara Lewis
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Burundi hosts 300,000 forcibly displacd, including 85,000 refugees and asylum seekers, 25,000 internally displaced persons and over 185,000 Burundian refugee returnees repatriated by UNHCR since September 2017. Nearly all refugees are from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo that have come back from Tanzania, Rwanda, the DRC, Uganda and Kenya.

Nearly 40% of the refugee population resides in urban areas, while the majority are hosted in five camps located in the eastern and northeastern regions of the country. Nearly 110,000 refugee returnees reside in the country's eastern provinces, mainly in Makamba, Ruyigi, Kirundo and Muyinga provinces.

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Populations

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Burundi | 2025
Total273,315Refugees | 48%Asylum-seekers | 2%Returned refugees | 20%IDPs | 29%Stateless | 1%Others of concern | 1%

Note: The "Stateless" category does not include stateless people who are also in other categories, to avoid double counting. The total number of stateless, across all categories, is .

NB: 2025 figures are planning figures.

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder for years until 2022, UNHCR planning figures (COMPASS) otherwise.

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Financials

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Budget information for the current year is updated monthly, while budget and expenditure information for all other years are final.

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Latest updates

Burundi Funding Update - 2025
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2 May 2025
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January 2024 - December 2025
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