Kazakhstan - 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 Kazakhstan was 4,406 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,610 in 2002 and a minimum value of 4,285 in 2007.

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
1993 5,000
1994 5,030
1995 15,561
1996 15,577
1997 15,577
1998 8,338
1999 14,795
2000 20,574
2001 19,531
2002 20,610
2003 15,831
2004 15,844
2005 7,265
2006 4,412
2007 4,285
2008 4,352
2009 4,340
2010 4,406

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration