Djibouti - 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 Djibouti was 2,444.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18,096.00 in 1996 and a minimum value of 5.00 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
1990 5.00
1991 10.00
1992 10.00
1993 36.00
1994 18,065.00
1995 18,092.00
1996 18,096.00
1997 8,143.00
1998 3,222.00
1999 1,879.00
2000 1,911.00
2001 451.00
2002 470.00
2003 520.00
2004 492.00
2005 498.00
2006 479.00
2007 645.00
2008 638.00
2009 613.00
2010 556.00
2011 595.00
2012 626.00
2013 747.00
2014 870.00
2015 1,059.00
2016 1,437.00
2017 1,761.00
2018 2,124.00
2019 2,351.00
2020 2,444.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration