Ukraine - 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 Ukraine was 35,180.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 321,399.00 in 2015 and a minimum value of 39.00 in 1992.

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
1992 39.00
1993 133.00
1994 917.00
1995 1,702.00
1996 6,106.00
1997 6,348.00
1998 4,599.00
1999 12,235.00
2000 19,310.00
2001 26,712.00
2002 85,258.00
2003 94,141.00
2004 89,582.00
2005 84,223.00
2006 63,716.00
2007 25,980.00
2008 28,416.00
2009 24,512.00
2010 25,102.00
2011 25,372.00
2012 25,248.00
2013 5,154.00
2014 237,617.00
2015 321,399.00
2016 239,062.00
2017 139,581.00
2018 93,248.00
2019 59,844.00
2020 35,180.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration