IDA blend - 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 IDA blend was 2,441,594 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,524,710 in 1990 and a minimum value of 1,392,096 in 1994.

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 3,524,710
1991 3,475,989
1992 2,326,211
1993 1,959,485
1994 1,392,096
1995 1,523,208
1996 1,515,357
1997 1,523,811
1998 1,533,357
1999 1,531,500
2000 2,430,047
2001 2,658,774
2002 1,695,249
2003 1,585,817
2004 1,725,558
2005 1,530,891
2006 1,431,741
2007 2,422,862
2008 2,231,753
2009 2,334,358
2010 2,564,062
2011 2,533,738
2012 2,417,841
2013 2,334,813
2014 2,392,782
2015 2,520,932
2016 2,243,857
2017 2,230,439
2018 2,295,626
2019 2,363,258
2020 2,441,594

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration