Philippines - 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 Philippines was 125.00 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19,860.00 in 1990 and a minimum value of 95.00 in 2009.

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 19,860.00
1991 8,972.00
1992 6,722.00
1993 2,477.00
1994 669.00
1995 783.00
1996 691.00
1997 311.00
1998 307.00
1999 170.00
2000 176.00
2001 136.00
2002 114.00
2003 108.00
2004 107.00
2005 96.00
2006 100.00
2007 106.00
2008 104.00
2009 95.00
2010 243.00
2011 125.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration