IDA total - 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 IDA total was 18,097,090 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18,097,090 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5,383,075 in 2006.

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
1990 11,910,780
1991 11,350,430
1992 10,280,150
1993 9,990,121
1994 9,757,582
1995 8,621,637
1996 7,466,666
1997 6,605,281
1998 6,280,804
1999 6,475,253
2000 7,444,800
2001 7,276,853
2002 6,069,311
2003 5,550,885
2004 5,843,112
2005 5,499,847
2006 5,383,075
2007 6,046,149
2008 5,706,161
2009 6,043,217
2010 6,365,630
2011 6,534,832
2012 7,441,546
2013 9,373,166
2014 11,888,940
2015 13,639,760
2016 14,744,910
2017 17,556,940
2018 17,992,410
2019 18,001,430
2020 18,097,090

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration