Central African Republic - 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 Central African Republic was 21,574 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55,661 in 2000 and a minimum value of 4,284 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: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/statistics/populationdatabase.

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Year	Value
1990	4,284
1991	12,223
1992	19,040
1993	44,129
1994	47,791
1995	33,856
1996	36,564
1997	38,499
1998	43,013
1999	49,314
2000	55,661
2001	49,239
2002	50,725
2003	44,753
2004	25,020
2005	24,569
2006	12,357
2007	7,535
2008	7,429
2009	27,047
2010	21,574

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration