Dominica - 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 Dominica was 60.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 2001.

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
2001 5.00
2002 6.00
2003 17.00
2004 24.00
2005 30.00
2006 49.00
2007 58.00
2008 56.00
2009 51.00
2010 51.00
2011 49.00
2012 52.00
2013 41.00
2014 35.00
2015 35.00
2016 20.00
2017 26.00
2018 36.00
2019 50.00
2020 60.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration