Burundi - 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 Burundi was 373,036.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 871,376.00 in 1993 and a minimum value of 250.00 in 1966.

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
1965 3,000.00
1966 250.00
1972 129,000.00
1973 131,895.00
1974 120,880.00
1975 141,940.00
1976 152,320.00
1977 153,550.00
1978 148,180.00
1979 151,680.00
1980 169,770.00
1981 182,950.00
1982 176,270.00
1983 176,550.00
1984 182,910.00
1985 199,810.00
1986 210,620.00
1987 186,910.00
1988 190,153.00
1989 191,441.00
1990 191,619.00
1991 223,942.00
1992 184,129.00
1993 871,376.00
1994 389,698.00
1995 350,575.00
1996 428,680.00
1997 519,116.00
1998 502,555.00
1999 527,437.00
2000 568,070.00
2001 553,987.00
2002 574,552.00
2003 531,626.00
2004 485,753.00
2005 438,695.00
2006 396,533.00
2007 375,720.00
2008 281,583.00
2009 94,221.00
2010 84,053.00
2011 101,282.00
2012 73,354.00
2013 72,636.00
2014 72,477.00
2015 292,750.00
2016 408,066.00
2017 439,320.00
2018 387,850.00
2019 380,900.00
2020 373,036.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration