Belarus - 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 Belarus was 2,915.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30,525.00 in 1996 and a minimum value of 50.00 in 1997.

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: 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
1994 1,824.00
1995 28,988.00
1996 30,525.00
1997 50.00
1998 75.00
1999 261.00
2000 453.00
2001 581.00
2002 612.00
2003 631.00
2004 719.00
2005 718.00
2006 683.00
2007 643.00
2008 602.00
2009 578.00
2010 587.00
2011 594.00
2012 572.00
2013 599.00
2014 919.00
2015 1,805.00
2016 1,647.00
2017 2,155.00
2018 2,225.00
2019 2,725.00
2020 2,915.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration