Canada - 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 Canada was 85.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 530.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1991.

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
1991 5.00
1992 5.00
1993 5.00
1994 5.00
1995 5.00
1996 10.00
1997 12.00
1998 16.00
1999 19.00
2000 25.00
2001 5.00
2002 52.00
2003 61.00
2004 57.00
2005 120.00
2006 94.00
2007 530.00
2008 100.00
2009 97.00
2010 86.00
2011 108.00
2012 121.00
2013 94.00
2014 89.00
2015 73.00
2016 76.00
2017 75.00
2018 81.00
2019 71.00
2020 85.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration