Croatia - 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 Croatia was 23,456 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 353,721 in 1999 and a minimum value of 23,456 in 2020.

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 168,570
1993 151,689
1994 76,256
1995 245,572
1996 310,090
1997 349,307
1998 338,085
1999 353,721
2000 335,200
2001 290,283
2002 274,822
2003 230,193
2004 215,480
2005 119,154
2006 93,768
2007 100,429
2008 97,016
2009 76,479
2010 65,863
2011 62,653
2012 62,606
2013 49,755
2014 40,121
2015 33,452
2016 26,231
2017 24,869
2018 24,105
2019 23,793
2020 23,456

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration