Chile - 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 Chile was 694.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15,475.00 in 1994 and a minimum value of 479.00 in 2018.

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
1974 13,550.00
1975 15,350.00
1976 2,670.00
1977 3,000.00
1978 3,130.00
1979 3,130.00
1980 1,505.00
1981 1,885.00
1982 2,483.00
1983 1,794.00
1984 1,552.00
1985 2,181.00
1986 2,434.00
1987 1,906.00
1988 608.00
1989 1,201.00
1990 14,547.00
1991 14,006.00
1992 14,042.00
1993 15,265.00
1994 15,475.00
1995 14,274.00
1996 12,801.00
1997 9,775.00
1998 7,005.00
1999 1,539.00
2000 858.00
2001 834.00
2002 1,705.00
2003 1,549.00
2004 1,183.00
2005 929.00
2006 798.00
2007 964.00
2008 988.00
2009 1,305.00
2010 1,163.00
2011 1,182.00
2012 1,145.00
2013 588.00
2014 571.00
2015 554.00
2016 495.00
2017 493.00
2018 479.00
2019 486.00
2020 694.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration