Bangladesh - 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 Bangladesh was 866,534.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 932,209.00 in 2017 and a minimum value of 145.00 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 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
1978 164,000.00
1990 145.00
1991 40,260.00
1992 245,154.00
1993 198,950.00
1994 116,227.00
1995 51,117.00
1996 30,690.00
1997 21,603.00
1998 22,275.00
1999 22,209.00
2000 21,623.00
2001 22,169.00
2002 22,024.00
2003 19,791.00
2004 20,450.00
2005 21,099.00
2006 26,308.00
2007 27,571.00
2008 28,384.00
2009 228,587.00
2010 229,256.00
2011 229,669.00
2012 230,696.00
2013 231,142.00
2014 232,468.00
2015 231,954.00
2016 276,203.00
2017 932,209.00
2018 906,640.00
2019 854,779.00
2020 866,534.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration