Slovak Republic - 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 Slovak Republic was 461.00 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,339.00 in 1995 and a minimum value of 159.00 in 1994.

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 1,521.00
1994 159.00
1995 2,339.00
1996 1,387.00
1997 746.00
1998 424.00
1999 443.00
2000 457.00
2001 472.00
2002 444.00
2003 414.00
2004 409.00
2005 368.00
2006 248.00
2007 279.00
2008 317.00
2009 401.00
2010 461.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration