Central Europe and the Baltics - 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 Europe and the Baltics was 41,206 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 522,368 in 1992 and a minimum value of 22,945 in 2004.

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
1990 45,123
1991 75,730
1992 522,368
1993 339,151
1994 219,622
1995 239,459
1996 188,891
1997 84,216
1998 40,365
1999 42,158
2000 36,145
2001 37,029
2002 24,031
2003 23,672
2004 22,945
2005 24,915
2006 26,330
2007 29,607
2008 32,231
2009 32,831
2010 32,497
2011 32,455
2012 28,820
2013 30,559
2014 37,933
2015 44,267
2016 44,458
2017 49,279
2018 49,925
2019 50,200
2020 41,206

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration