Ethiopia - 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 Ethiopia was 151,336 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,567,998 in 1980 and a minimum value of 28,600 in 1967.

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
1967 28,600
1968 31,000
1969 31,000
1970 54,350
1971 55,200
1972 44,640
1973 46,300
1974 49,200
1975 91,410
1976 105,700
1977 655,350
1978 887,670
1979 1,623,870
1980 2,567,998
1981 1,363,266
1982 1,334,915
1983 1,351,917
1984 1,546,134
1985 1,749,309
1986 1,534,548
1987 1,487,663
1988 1,513,307
1989 1,474,919
1990 1,345,928
1991 251,243
1992 313,131
1993 251,828
1994 226,429
1995 100,986
1996 96,264
1997 84,386
1998 70,663
1999 71,040
2000 66,396
2001 58,980
2002 61,235
2003 62,674
2004 63,153
2005 65,447
2006 74,007
2007 59,845
2008 63,861
2009 62,877
2010 68,838
2011 70,601
2012 74,965
2013 77,109
2014 86,857
2015 85,839
2016 83,958
2017 87,448
2018 92,232
2019 93,467
2020 151,336

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration