The African Refugee Dataset tracks the locations, time of operation, and population of refugee camps and other locations from 1999 to 2016 over all of sub-Saharan Africa. It is the first dataset (to our knowledge) to combine this information over such a long period of time and for such a large region.

 

For a detailed description of how we collected and organized the data please see our working paper, Introducing the African Refugee Dataset. 

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I plan to make the data publicly available soon. Check back here for a link.

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This is a collaboration with Colette Salemi.