Equatorial Guinea - 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 Equatorial Guinea was 170.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 120,000.00 in 1977 and a minimum value of 60.00 in 1991.

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
1974 1,000.00
1975 90,000.00
1976 90,000.00
1977 120,000.00
1978 90,000.00
1979 40,000.00
1980 38,000.00
1981 18,000.00
1982 18,000.00
1991 60.00
1992 115.00
1993 214.00
1994 340.00
1995 342.00
1996 398.00
1997 474.00
1998 419.00
1999 422.00
2000 504.00
2001 526.00
2002 549.00
2003 584.00
2004 540.00
2005 478.00
2006 460.00
2007 402.00
2008 381.00
2009 341.00
2010 306.00
2011 261.00
2012 230.00
2013 196.00
2014 168.00
2015 142.00
2016 131.00
2017 127.00
2018 140.00
2019 156.00
2020 170.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration