Venezuela - 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 Venezuela was 171,127.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 171,127.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.00 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

See also:

Year Value
1992 5.00
1993 135.00
1994 370.00
1995 478.00
1996 558.00
1997 606.00
1998 568.00
1999 554.00
2000 469.00
2001 464.00
2002 525.00
2003 598.00
2004 1,251.00
2005 2,581.00
2006 3,821.00
2007 5,089.00
2008 5,801.00
2009 6,216.00
2010 6,697.00
2011 7,575.00
2012 8,204.00
2013 8,396.00
2014 8,009.00
2015 7,455.00
2016 7,543.00
2017 9,272.00
2018 21,047.00
2019 93,239.00
2020 171,127.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration