Angola - Refugee population by country or territory of asylum

Refugee population by country or territory of asylum

The value for Refugee population by country or territory of asylum in Angola was 25,806 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 235,000 in 1977 and a minimum value of 9,361 in 1997.

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 asylum is the country where an asylum claim was filed and granted.

Source: Data before 2018 are from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistics Database, Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data

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Year Value
1976 10,000
1977 235,000
1978 141,550
1979 66,000
1980 75,000
1981 91,700
1982 96,280
1983 96,280
1984 92,260
1985 91,520
1986 92,250
1987 91,210
1988 90,350
1989 12,899
1990 11,557
1991 11,022
1992 11,002
1993 10,873
1994 10,684
1995 10,878
1996 9,379
1997 9,361
1998 10,603
1999 13,068
2000 12,086
2001 12,245
2002 12,249
2003 13,375
2004 13,963
2005 13,978
2006 13,086
2007 12,064
2008 12,704
2009 14,722
2010 15,142
2011 16,212
2012 23,401
2013 23,771
2014 15,468
2015 15,547
2016 15,547
2017 41,119
2018 39,856
2019 25,793
2020 25,806

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration