Guinea - 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 Guinea was 6,034 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 672,293 in 1995 and a minimum value of 4,294 in 2018.

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
1990 325,000
1991 547,961
1992 478,491
1993 577,156
1994 553,236
1995 672,293
1996 663,849
1997 435,294
1998 482,463
1999 501,544
2000 427,210
2001 178,446
2002 182,164
2003 184,339
2004 139,240
2005 63,519
2006 31,466
2007 25,220
2008 21,485
2009 15,322
2010 14,110
2011 16,606
2012 10,369
2013 8,554
2014 8,763
2015 8,835
2016 5,067
2017 5,156
2018 4,294
2019 4,964
2020 6,034

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration