China - 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 China was 300,986 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 301,078 in 2007 and a minimum value of 287,066 in 1994.

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	287,276
1991	289,061
1992	288,123
1993	287,423
1994	287,066
1995	288,309
1996	290,100
1997	291,507
1998	292,345
1999	293,299
2000	294,110
2001	295,325
2002	297,277
2003	299,354
2004	299,375
2005	301,041
2006	301,027
2007	301,078
2008	300,967
2009	300,989
2010	300,986

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration