Fiji - 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 Fiji was 516.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,888.00 in 2009 and a minimum value of 19.00 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 19.00
1993 89.00
1994 156.00
1995 222.00
1996 305.00
1997 326.00
1998 301.00
1999 328.00
2000 401.00
2001 731.00
2002 1,071.00
2003 1,088.00
2004 1,280.00
2005 1,376.00
2006 1,686.00
2007 1,824.00
2008 1,862.00
2009 1,888.00
2010 1,849.00
2011 1,576.00
2012 1,314.00
2013 1,109.00
2014 927.00
2015 887.00
2016 791.00
2017 734.00
2018 675.00
2019 591.00
2020 516.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration