Bhutan - 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 Bhutan was 6,808 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 112,524 in 2002 and a minimum value of 6,808 in 2020.

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
1991 9,504
1992 75,442
1993 85,334
1994 103,270
1995 104,746
1996 106,820
1997 108,702
1998 105,690
1999 107,619
2000 108,943
2001 110,844
2002 112,524
2003 103,977
2004 105,259
2005 106,539
2006 108,069
2007 110,593
2008 104,960
2009 89,064
2010 75,062
2011 57,980
2012 41,582
2013 31,556
2014 23,633
2015 17,709
2016 11,757
2017 7,954
2018 7,100
2019 6,839
2020 6,808

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration