Dem. Rep. 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 Dem. Rep. Congo was 490,243 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,724,365 in 1994 and a minimum value of 65,106 in 2012.

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
1960 150,000
1961 203,000
1962 223,000
1963 237,000
1964 236,000
1965 265,000
1966 357,100
1967 434,100
1968 475,400
1969 496,300
1970 489,000
1971 474,250
1972 495,250
1973 460,050
1974 503,250
1975 510,000
1976 515,000
1977 530,300
1978 653,000
1979 710,480
1980 611,110
1981 576,740
1982 497,600
1983 303,500
1984 337,330
1985 283,000
1986 301,230
1987 320,000
1988 340,675
1989 340,689
1990 416,435
1991 482,959
1992 391,127
1993 572,070
1994 1,724,365
1995 1,433,760
1996 675,972
1997 297,536
1998 240,214
1999 285,270
2000 332,509
2001 362,014
2002 332,978
2003 234,033
2004 199,323
2005 204,341
2006 208,371
2007 177,390
2008 155,162
2009 185,809
2010 166,333
2011 152,748
2012 65,106
2013 113,357
2014 119,752
2015 383,095
2016 451,957
2017 537,089
2018 529,065
2019 523,733
2020 490,243

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration