Africa
Algeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3750 (2023)
Angola
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 28294 (2023)
Benin
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 6588 (2023)
Botswana
- Immigration detainees: 300 (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 97 (2023)
Burkina Faso
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 558 (2023)
Burundi
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3013 (2023)
Cameroon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8554 (2023)
Cape Verde
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2023)
Central African Republic
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 44571 (2023)
Chad
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 5392 (2023)
Comoros
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2023)
Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3449 (2023)
Congo (Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 19069 (2023)
Cote d'Ivoire
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 19009 (2023)
Djibouti
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8915 (2023)
Egypt
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 84154 (2023)
Equatorial Guinea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: Not Available (2022)
Eritrea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2023)
Ethiopia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 4038 (2023)
Gabon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 76 (2023)
Gambia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 425 (2023)
Ghana
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 4209 (2023)
Guinea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 54 (2023)
Guinea-Bissau
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30 (2023)
Kenya
- Immigration detainees: 1000 (2015)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 104490 (2023)
Lesotho
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity: 0 (2019)
- International migrants: 321 (2023)
Liberia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 627 (2023)
Libya
- Immigration detainees: 8672 (2018)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2018)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2018)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2018)
- International migrants: 42908 (2023)
Madagascar
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 358 (2023)
Malawi
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 16494 (2023)
Mali
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 894 (2023)
Mauritania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 4758 (2023)
Mauritius
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8 (2023)
Morocco
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2020)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2020)
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 11240 (2023)
Mozambique
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 27389 (2023)
Namibia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2242 (2023)
Niger
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2018)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2018)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2018)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2018)
- International migrants: 50356 (2023)
Nigeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 5670 (2023)
Rwanda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 9116 (2023)
Sao Tome and Principe
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
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- International migrants:
Senegal
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 285 (2023)
Sierra Leone
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2016)
Somalia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 19262 (2023)
Somalia (Puntland)
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2886 (2013)
Somaliland
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
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- International migrants:
South Africa
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 81938 (2023)
South Sudan
- Immigration detainees: 156 (2022)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2606 (2023)
Sudan
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 33272 (2023)
Eswatini
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1419 (2023)
Tanzania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 38643 (2023)
Togo
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 13900 (2023)
Tunisia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2019)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2020)
- International migrants: 5093 (2023)
Uganda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 48956 (2023)
Zambia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 4317 (2023)
Zimbabwe
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 11986 (2023)
*All of the countries that are in this region are not necessarily listed on this page.
