Congo - 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 Congo was 27,107.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 141,224.00 in 2011 and a minimum value of 150.00 in 1978.

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
1969 500.00
1970 500.00
1974 10,000.00
1975 5,000.00
1978 150.00
1983 1,000.00
1984 1,000.00
1985 1,200.00
1986 1,580.00
1987 2,120.00
1988 2,160.00
1989 3,401.00
1990 2,990.00
1991 3,395.00
1992 3,385.00
1993 13,646.00
1994 15,522.00
1995 19,404.00
1996 20,451.00
1997 20,700.00
1998 27,176.00
1999 39,870.00
2000 123,190.00
2001 119,146.00
2002 109,201.00
2003 91,362.00
2004 68,536.00
2005 66,075.00
2006 55,788.00
2007 38,472.00
2008 24,771.00
2009 111,403.00
2010 133,099.00
2011 141,224.00
2012 98,446.00
2013 51,033.00
2014 54,842.00
2015 44,952.00
2016 46,454.00
2017 48,509.00
2018 37,491.00
2019 25,668.00
2020 27,107.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration