Djibouti - 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 Djibouti was 21,208 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 96,144 in 1991 and a minimum value of 1,272 in 1988.

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

See also:

Year Value
1977 8,000
1978 20,000
1979 28,800
1980 45,310
1981 31,800
1982 34,200
1983 29,170
1984 16,770
1985 17,280
1986 16,720
1987 13,140
1988 1,272
1989 31,409
1990 77,606
1991 96,144
1992 28,000
1993 34,065
1994 33,410
1995 27,310
1996 25,080
1997 23,589
1998 23,577
1999 23,266
2000 23,238
2001 23,172
2002 21,702
2003 27,034
2004 18,033
2005 10,455
2006 9,257
2007 6,653
2008 9,228
2009 12,106
2010 15,102
2011 20,336
2012 19,136
2013 20,010
2014 20,525
2015 19,369
2016 17,683
2017 17,553
2018 18,293
2019 19,639
2020 21,208

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration