Costa Rica - 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 Costa Rica was 233.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 463.00 in 2013 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1992.

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
1992 5.00
1993 5.00
1994 222.00
1995 209.00
1996 136.00
1997 86.00
1998 50.00
1999 73.00
2000 55.00
2001 86.00
2002 97.00
2003 91.00
2004 136.00
2005 176.00
2006 283.00
2007 361.00
2008 354.00
2009 344.00
2010 352.00
2011 332.00
2012 325.00
2013 463.00
2014 414.00
2015 374.00
2016 202.00
2017 195.00
2018 207.00
2019 206.00
2020 233.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration