Burundi - 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 Burundi was 75,476 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 300,302 in 1994 and a minimum value of 13,174 in 2006.

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
1961 30,000
1962 30,000
1963 34,000
1964 78,000
1965 65,000
1966 79,000
1967 79,000
1968 72,200
1969 46,200
1970 38,800
1971 32,950
1972 43,390
1973 49,000
1974 48,500
1975 49,500
1976 49,500
1977 50,000
1978 50,340
1979 50,490
1980 234,560
1981 234,590
1982 253,170
1983 253,820
1984 273,810
1985 267,440
1986 267,500
1987 267,500
1988 267,500
1989 267,455
1990 268,403
1991 270,136
1992 271,745
1993 271,883
1994 300,302
1995 173,016
1996 20,734
1997 22,027
1998 25,092
1999 22,107
2000 27,133
2001 27,895
2002 40,532
2003 40,970
2004 48,807
2005 20,679
2006 13,174
2007 24,482
2008 21,092
2009 24,965
2010 29,364
2011 35,658
2012 41,811
2013 45,487
2014 52,931
2015 53,356
2016 57,462
2017 62,353
2018 71,501
2019 78,465
2020 75,476

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration