Argentina - 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 Argentina was 139.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 40 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,164.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 38.00 in 1980.

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
1980 38.00
1981 38.00
1982 1,019.00
1983 42.00
1984 42.00
1985 51.00
1986 52.00
1987 47.00
1988 46.00
1989 103.00
1990 332.00
1991 196.00
1992 111.00
1993 97.00
1994 467.00
1995 330.00
1996 218.00
1997 157.00
1998 140.00
1999 585.00
2000 608.00
2001 660.00
2002 764.00
2003 777.00
2004 789.00
2005 850.00
2006 888.00
2007 1,164.00
2008 1,039.00
2009 604.00
2010 553.00
2011 506.00
2012 435.00
2013 381.00
2014 311.00
2015 186.00
2016 120.00
2017 121.00
2018 112.00
2019 99.00
2020 139.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration