Albania - Refugee population by country or territory of origin

Refugee population by country or territory of origin

The value for Refugee population by country or territory of origin in Albania was 14,772 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15,711 in 2009 and a minimum value of 1,822 in 1990.

Definition: Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded. Palestinian refugees are people (and their descendants) whose residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Country of origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.

Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/statistics/populationdatabase.

See also:

Year Value
1990 1,822
1991 3,540
1992 4,353
1993 4,744
1994 5,019
1995 5,803
1996 5,785
1997 5,379
1998 5,353
1999 4,325
2000 6,802
2001 7,626
2002 10,761
2003 10,385
2004 10,478
2005 12,722
2006 14,079
2007 15,340
2008 15,006
2009 15,711
2010 14,772

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration