Germany - 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 Germany was 76.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,297.00 in 1999 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1991.

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
1991 5.00
1992 5.00
1993 8.00
1994 449.00
1995 384.00
1996 421.00
1997 443.00
1998 689.00
1999 1,297.00
2000 1,182.00
2001 1,028.00
2002 924.00
2003 719.00
2004 74.00
2005 75.00
2006 114.00
2007 126.00
2008 162.00
2009 167.00
2010 159.00
2011 169.00
2012 174.00
2013 164.00
2014 170.00
2015 153.00
2016 67.00
2017 66.00
2018 61.00
2019 69.00
2020 76.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration