Liberia - 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 Liberia was 8,233.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 150,155.00 in 1993 and a minimum value of 60.00 in 1971.

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
1969 1,000.00
1971 60.00
1977 1,550.00
1983 90.00
1984 260.00
1985 180.00
1986 250.00
1987 170.00
1988 80.00
1989 250.00
1992 100,048.00
1993 150,155.00
1994 120,164.00
1995 120,082.00
1996 120,060.00
1997 126,882.00
1998 96,310.00
1999 96,310.00
2000 69,307.00
2001 54,753.00
2002 64,946.00
2003 33,992.00
2004 15,168.00
2005 10,161.00
2006 16,179.00
2007 10,461.00
2008 10,216.00
2009 6,943.00
2010 24,735.00
2011 128,283.00
2012 65,899.00
2013 53,244.00
2014 38,587.00
2015 36,495.00
2016 18,978.00
2017 11,109.00
2018 9,103.00
2019 8,225.00
2020 8,233.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration