Africa
Algeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3646 (2022)
Angola
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30268 (2022)
Benin
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1460 (2022)
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 (2022)
Burkina Faso
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 551 (2022)
Burundi
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 3950 (2022)
Cameroon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 9247 (2022)
Cape Verde
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 0 (2022)
Central African Republic
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 470 (2022)
Chad
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 4953 (2022)
Comoros
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 5 (2022)
Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2147 (2022)
Congo (Republic)
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 18356 (2022)
Cote d'Ivoire
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 176 (2022)
Djibouti
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 9174 (2022)
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: 63881 (2022)
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 (2022)
Ethiopia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2214 (2022)
Gabon
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 75 (2022)
Gambia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 198 (2022)
Ghana
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2517 (2022)
Guinea
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 53 (2022)
Guinea-Bissau
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 30 (2022)
Kenya
- Immigration detainees: 1000 (2015)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 69011 (2022)
Lesotho
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity: 0 (2019)
- International migrants: 288 (2022)
Liberia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 821 (2022)
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: 42509 (2022)
Madagascar
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 114 (2022)
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: 21263 (2022)
Mali
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 880 (2022)
Mauritania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 5389 (2022)
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: 10159 (2022)
Mozambique
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 25919 (2022)
Namibia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2512 (2022)
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: 46705 (2022)
Nigeria
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 1623 (2022)
Rwanda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 478 (2022)
Sao Tome and Principe
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants:
Senegal
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 260 (2022)
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: 18578 (2022)
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: 84316 (2022)
South Sudan
- Immigration detainees: 156 (2022)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 2137 (2022)
Sudan
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2022)
- Detained unaccompanied children: Not Available (2021)
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2021)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2021)
- International migrants: 31830 (2022)
Eswatini
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 976 (2022)
Tanzania
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 28745 (2022)
Togo
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 576 (2022)
Tunisia
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers: Not Available (2019)
- Estimated detention capacity: Not Available (2020)
- International migrants: 5630 (2022)
Uganda
- Immigration detainees: Not Available (2019)
- Detained unaccompanied children:
- Detained asylum seekers:
- Estimated detention capacity:
- International migrants: 32166 (2022)
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: 2774 (2022)
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: 113 (2021)
*All of the countries that are in this region are not necessarily listed on this page.
