Benin - 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 Benin was 666.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 721.00 in 2019 and a minimum value of 41.00 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 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
1976 100.00
1978 200.00
1979 200.00
1986 50.00
1987 50.00
1988 50.00
1989 60.00
1993 62.00
1994 72.00
1995 50.00
1996 42.00
1997 41.00
1998 45.00
1999 44.00
2000 47.00
2001 52.00
2002 228.00
2003 274.00
2004 299.00
2005 402.00
2006 207.00
2007 265.00
2008 315.00
2009 409.00
2010 438.00
2011 460.00
2012 451.00
2013 294.00
2014 330.00
2015 400.00
2016 479.00
2017 572.00
2018 659.00
2019 721.00
2020 666.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration