SOMALIA SITUATION Population of concern to UNHCR as of 31 March 2021
MILLION MILLION 653,876 2.65 25,307 3.42 SOMALI REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED IN SOMALIA REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS PERSONS OF CONCERN ASYLUM-SEEKERS Banadir 19% hosted in Somalia, by country of origin [SOMALIA SITUATION] hosted in neighbouring countries Bay 10% Sool 9% Ethiopia 17,373 Kenya 275,354 Gedo 8% Internally displaced Somalis Yemen 6,895 Internally displaced Somalis 2.65M Ethiopia 206,122* Bari 7% Lower Juba 6% Other nationalities SomaliSomali refugees refugees and asylum- and Yemen 112,125 1,039 asylum-seekers 653,876 Mudug 6% seekers Uganda 46,373 Galgaduud 5% Somali returnees Djibouti Refugee returnees 92,150 13,822 Lower Shabelle 5% Eritrea 80 Togdheer 5% Refugees and asylum-seekers 92,150 Woqooyi Galbeed 4% Refugees and asylum-seekersin Somalia 25,307 Other regions 15% SOMALI REFUGEE RETURNEES AGE AND GENDER COMPOSITION [2014 - 2021] | UNHCR-assisted returns As of March 2021, Somalia was host to 25,307 registered of refugees and asylum-seekers Estimated IDP statistics, Somalia Information Management Working Group, June 2018 39,990 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Ethiopia and Yemen. 36,747 58% 81% REASONS FOR DISPLACEMENT Over 92,000 Somali refugees have voluntarily returned to CHILDREN WOMEN & below 18 yrs CHILDREN Drought related 54% Somalia since December 2014 with UNHCR assistance from different countries of asylum including Kenya, Yemen, Djibouti, Conflict/Insecurity 30% 10,703 Libya, Tunisia and Eritrea. 39% 3% Flood 12% 4,057 ADULTS ELDERLY 600 53 18-59 yrs above 60 yrs Other 3% pre-2017 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
SOMALIS diplaced into neighbouring countries Population of concern to UNHCR in SOMALIA
$ SAUDI ARABIA Awdal Bari Sanaag Red Sea 2.65 MILLION Woqooyi Galbeed Togdheer INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS Sool ERITREA Nugal 80 Mudug SUDAN * YEMEN 92,150 Galgaduud *112,125 SOMALI REFGEE RETURNEES Bakool Hiraan Gulf of Aden [2014 - 2021] Middle Gedo Bay Shabelle DJIBOUTI Banadir 13,822 Lower Middle Juba Shabelle 25,307 Lower Juba ETHIOPIA REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS 206,122 Refugee Refugees and Asylum Region IDPs Returnees Seekers SOUTH SUDAN Awdal 26,000 - 181 Bakool 48,000 - - Banadir 497,000 20,506 2,135 SOMALIA Bari 198,000 - 6,439 Lake Turkana Bay 272,000 9,760 - UGANDA Galgaduud 144,000 18 -
INDIAN OCEAN Gedo 207,000 2,967 - KENYA 46,373 Hiraan 78,000 70 - Lower Juba 165,000 54,617 - 275,354 Lower Shabelle 139,000 184 55 Lake Victoria Middle Juba 40,000 1,540 - Middle Shabelle 51,000 864 1 Mudug 155,000 - 1,003 UNITED Nugaal 60,000 58 1,770 REPUBLIC OF Sanaag 92,000 - 149 TANZANIA Somali refugee movements Sool 233,000 - 17
Number of Somali refugees Togdheer 126,000 - 305 and asylum-seekers Woqooyi Galbeed 117,000 804 13,252
*Reduction due to the ongoing Population Review Exercise in Yemen Other - 762 - 50km Note: Arrows do not reflect size of population flows or actual routes of movement Total 2,648,000 92,150 ** 25,307
The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Final boundaries between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan and Somalia and Ethiopia has not yet been determined. Printing date: 23 April 2021 Sources: Geographic data: UNCS. Refugee statistics - UNHCR Country offices as of 31 March 2021 or latest available. Somalia IDP estimates as of July 2020, Somalia IMWG. Figures shown are provisional and subject to change. Boundaries - UNCS, UNDP Author: UNHCR Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Feedback: [email protected]