New Zealand - 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 New Zealand was 1,808 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17,310 in 1992 and a minimum value of 1,313 in 2015.

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
1967 3,000
1968 2,000
1969 2,000
1970 2,000
1978 10,000
1979 10,000
1980 10,000
1981 10,600
1982 10,600
1983 10,600
1984 4,500
1985 4,600
1986 4,400
1987 4,200
1988 4,150
1989 4,666
1990 4,666
1991 16,760
1992 17,310
1993 3,942
1994 3,668
1995 3,766
1996 3,790
1997 3,652
1998 4,099
1999 4,801
2000 4,919
2001 5,251
2002 5,760
2003 5,796
2004 5,334
2005 5,298
2006 4,878
2007 2,715
2008 2,702
2009 3,285
2010 2,298
2011 1,916
2012 1,504
2013 1,388
2014 1,342
2015 1,313
2016 1,408
2017 1,465
2018 1,545
2019 1,709
2020 1,808

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration