Cuba - 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 Cuba was 232.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,092.00 in 1992 and a minimum value of 232.00 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 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

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Year Value
1974 1,300.00
1977 2,600.00
1978 4,000.00
1979 3,060.00
1980 2,970.00
1981 2,000.00
1982 2,000.00
1983 2,000.00
1984 2,000.00
1985 2,000.00
1986 2,000.00
1987 2,000.00
1988 2,000.00
1989 3,990.00
1990 3,988.00
1992 5,092.00
1993 3,611.00
1994 1,993.00
1995 1,831.00
1996 1,700.00
1997 1,274.00
1998 1,065.00
1999 956.00
2000 951.00
2001 1,033.00
2002 1,001.00
2003 833.00
2004 791.00
2005 697.00
2006 656.00
2007 617.00
2008 523.00
2009 445.00
2010 406.00
2011 381.00
2012 366.00
2013 377.00
2014 276.00
2015 300.00
2016 312.00
2017 343.00
2018 287.00
2019 233.00
2020 232.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration