Guinea - 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 Guinea was 14,113 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 672,298 in 1995 and a minimum value of 14,113 in 2010.

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: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Statistical Yearbook and data files, complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA as published on its website. Data from UNHCR are available online at: www.unhcr.org/statistics/populationdatabase.

See also:

Year Value
1990 325,000
1991 547,960
1992 478,491
1993 577,158
1994 553,244
1995 672,298
1996 663,854
1997 435,300
1998 482,467
1999 501,544
2000 427,206
2001 178,444
2002 182,163
2003 184,341
2004 139,252
2005 63,525
2006 31,468
2007 25,226
2008 21,488
2009 15,325
2010 14,113

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration