Central African Republic - 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 Central African Republic was 642,437.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 642,437.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 100.00 in 1990.

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
1982 15,000.00
1986 230.00
1987 160.00
1988 170.00
1989 310.00
1990 100.00
1991 320.00
1992 325.00
1993 309.00
1994 264.00
1995 241.00
1996 240.00
1997 139.00
1998 168.00
1999 190.00
2000 135.00
2001 28,698.00
2002 25,368.00
2003 35,394.00
2004 31,056.00
2005 42,875.00
2006 71,669.00
2007 98,092.00
2008 125,090.00
2009 159,542.00
2010 164,902.00
2011 162,861.00
2012 164,567.00
2013 252,854.00
2014 412,028.00
2015 471,093.00
2016 490,879.00
2017 545,513.00
2018 590,858.00
2019 610,152.00
2020 642,437.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration