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Global Appeal 2025 | Regional Overview
At the end of 2023, the 16 countries that make up the southern Africa region hosted 10.1 million forcibly displaced people, returnees and stateless people. Most were families displaced within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mozambique. At the same time, 1 million refugees were living in protracted displacement situations and an increasing number were moving onwards, joining others as part of mixed movements of refugees and migrants on routes within and to sub-Saharan Africa.
To read more about UNHCR’s planning for 2025 in Southern Africa, please download the regional overview PDF.
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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 .
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
Population by country
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
Population by origin
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
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