Africa
Algeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2725 (2019)
Angola
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 45 (2019)
Benin
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 138 (2019)
Botswana
- Immigration detainees: 300 (2021)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: 511 (2015)
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 334 (2020)
Burkina Faso
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 28 (2019)
Burundi
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 12883 (2019)
Cameroon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3989 (2019)
Cape Verde
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
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Central African Republic
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 220 (2019)
Chad
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1163 (2019)
Comoros
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8612 (2019)
Congo (Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 8975 (2019)
Cote d'Ivoire
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 162 (2019)
Djibouti
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 840 (2019)
Egypt
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2017)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 25355 (2019)
Equatorial Guinea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
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Eritrea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 7 (2016)
Ethiopia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 443 (2019)
Gabon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 27 (2019)
Gambia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2 (2014)
Ghana
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 490 (2019)
Guinea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 574 (2019)
Guinea-Bissau
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 10 (2019)
Kenya
- Immigration detainees: 1000 (2015)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 12884 (2019)
Lesotho
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity: 0 (2019)
- International migrants: 121 (2019)
Liberia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 15 (2019)
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: 12143 (2019)
Madagascar
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 172 (2019)
Malawi
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children: 756 (2016)
- Detained asylum seekers: 19669 (2014)
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3278 (2020)
Mali
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 270 (2019)
Mauritania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1868 (2019)
Mauritius
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 15 (2019)
Morocco
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2020)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2020)
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 5621 (2019)
Mozambique
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 797 (2019)
Namibia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1156 (2019)
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: 43584 (2019)
Nigeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 19681 (2019)
Rwanda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 204 (2020)
Sao Tome and Principe
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
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Senegal
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 258 (2019)
Sierra Leone
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2016)
Somalia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2003 (2019)
Somalia (Puntland)
- Immigration detainees:
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- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2886 (2013)
Somaliland
- Immigration detainees:
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South Africa
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2020)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2016)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2017)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2018)
- International migrants: 3074 (2020)
South Sudan
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1385 (2019)
Sudan
- Immigration detainees:
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 7086 (2019)
Eswatini
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 145 (2016)
Tanzania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 10 (2019)
Togo
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 118 (2019)
Tunisia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2019)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2020)
- International migrants: 1513 (2019)
Uganda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 33358 (2019)
Zambia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: 24 (2014)
- Estimated detention capacity: 1925 (2010)
- International migrants: 7657 (2020)
Zimbabwe
- Immigration detainees: 2316 (2016)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 832 (2020)
*All of the countries that are in this region are not necessarily listed on this page.
