Singapore - Refugee population by country or territory of origin

Refugee population by country or territory of origin

The value for Refugee population by country or territory of origin in Singapore was 42.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 117.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1989.

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 origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.

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
1988 8.00
1989 5.00
1994 8.00
1995 8.00
1996 18.00
1997 20.00
1998 21.00
1999 24.00
2000 21.00
2001 15.00
2002 40.00
2003 35.00
2004 36.00
2005 35.00
2006 108.00
2007 117.00
2008 106.00
2009 77.00
2010 74.00
2011 65.00
2012 64.00
2013 61.00
2014 55.00
2015 50.00
2016 38.00
2017 48.00
2018 46.00
2019 39.00
2020 42.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration