Iran - 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 Iran was 800,025.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,404,995.00 in 1991 and a minimum value of 300.00 in 1968.

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
1962 2,000.00
1963 1,500.00
1968 300.00
1969 300.00
1979 130,100.00
1980 330,000.00
1981 1,565,000.00
1982 1,700,060.00
1983 1,900,060.00
1984 2,000,000.00
1985 2,300,000.00
1986 2,590,000.00
1987 2,760,000.00
1988 2,850,000.00
1989 2,850,000.00
1990 4,174,401.00
1991 4,404,995.00
1992 4,150,723.00
1993 2,495,038.00
1994 2,236,350.00
1995 2,071,988.00
1996 2,030,359.00
1997 1,982,553.00
1998 1,931,332.00
1999 1,835,688.00
2000 1,868,000.00
2001 1,868,000.00
2002 1,306,599.00
2003 984,895.00
2004 1,045,975.00
2005 974,301.00
2006 968,368.00
2007 963,544.00
2008 980,104.00
2009 1,070,483.00
2010 1,073,363.00
2011 886,465.00
2012 868,239.00
2013 857,352.00
2014 982,025.00
2015 979,435.00
2016 979,435.00
2017 979,435.00
2018 979,435.00
2019 979,435.00
2020 800,025.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration