Uruguay - 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 Uruguay was 186.00 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 842.00 in 1990 and a minimum value of 16.00 in 1999.

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: 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 842.00
1991 601.00
1992 429.00
1993 162.00
1994 362.00
1995 262.00
1996 201.00
1997 89.00
1998 74.00
1999 16.00
2000 51.00
2001 46.00
2002 61.00
2003 57.00
2004 81.00
2005 111.00
2006 164.00
2007 197.00
2008 199.00
2009 188.00
2010 186.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration