Indonesia - 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 Indonesia was 10,134.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 162,492.00 in 1999 and a minimum value of 19.00 in 1995.

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
1978 2,240.00
1979 32,330.00
1980 8,460.00
1981 14,900.00
1982 13,220.00
1983 10,070.00
1984 9,500.00
1985 8,230.00
1986 4,020.00
1987 2,450.00
1988 2,434.00
1989 999.00
1990 3,278.00
1991 3,157.00
1992 3,530.00
1993 2,402.00
1994 97.00
1995 19.00
1996 61.00
1997 29.00
1998 51.00
1999 162,492.00
2000 122,611.00
2001 73,542.00
2002 28,593.00
2003 230.00
2004 164.00
2005 82.00
2006 291.00
2007 306.00
2008 360.00
2009 794.00
2010 808.00
2011 1,004.00
2012 1,811.00
2013 3,195.00
2014 4,267.00
2015 5,954.00
2016 7,824.00
2017 9,782.00
2018 10,786.00
2019 10,287.00
2020 10,134.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration