Bosnia and Herzegovina - 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina was 15,625 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 993,868 in 1996 and a minimum value of 15,625 in 2020.

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: 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
1992 437,501
1993 618,428
1994 776,090
1995 769,753
1996 993,868
1997 849,240
1998 640,077
1999 598,193
2000 504,980
2001 447,326
2002 406,456
2003 300,012
2004 228,813
2005 109,931
2006 199,948
2007 78,267
2008 74,358
2009 70,006
2010 62,996
2011 58,572
2012 51,815
2013 26,787
2014 21,883
2015 18,763
2016 18,194
2017 17,690
2018 16,956
2019 16,556
2020 15,625

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration