Africa
Algeria
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 4838 (2024)
Angola
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30267 (2024)
Benin
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 6993 (2024)
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: 7 (2024)
Burkina Faso
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1493 (2024)
Burundi
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2089 (2024)
Cameroon
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 16034 (2024)
Cape Verde
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2023)
Central African Republic
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8270 (2024)
Chad
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 7779 (2024)
Comoros
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 13 (2024)
Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1041 (2024)
Congo (Republic)
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 7714 (2024)
Cote d'Ivoire
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 66799 (2024)
Djibouti
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8649 (2024)
Egypt
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2025)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2025)
- International migrants: 638948 (2024)
Equatorial Guinea
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2024)
Eritrea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2024)
Ethiopia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 63055 (2024)
Gabon
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 82 (2024)
Gambia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 447 (2024)
Ghana
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 9855 (2024)
Guinea
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 172 (2024)
Guinea-Bissau
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30 (2024)
Kenya
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 219647 (2024)
Lesotho
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity: 0 (2019)
- International migrants: 191 (2024)
Liberia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 687 (2024)
Libya
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2018)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2018)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2018)
- International migrants: 76675 (2024)
Madagascar
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1178 (2024)
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: 21149 (2024)
Mali
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 294 (2024)
Mauritania
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 7804 (2024)
Mauritius
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 72 (2024)
Morocco
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2020)
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 11378 (2024)
Mozambique
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 18880 (2024)
Namibia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1317 (2024)
Niger
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2018)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2018)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2018)
- International migrants: 51959 (2024)
Nigeria
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30744 (2024)
Rwanda
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 14193 (2024)
Senegal
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1228 (2024)
Sierra Leone
- Immigration detainees:
- 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: 22260 (2024)
Somalia (Puntland)
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2886 (2013)
Somaliland
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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: 100313 (2024)
South Sudan
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2677 (2024)
Sudan
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 44593 (2024)
Eswatini
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3164 (2024)
Tanzania
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 41264 (2024)
Togo
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1262 (2024)
Tunisia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2019)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2020)
- International migrants: 9620 (2024)
Uganda
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 37105 (2024)
Zambia
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 9643 (2024)
Zimbabwe
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 13192 (2024)
*All of the countries that are in this region are not necessarily listed on this page.
