Israel - 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 Israel was 1,898.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48,490.00 in 2012 and a minimum value of 22.00 in 1998.

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
1998 22.00
1999 123.00
2000 4,067.00
2001 4,159.00
2002 4,170.00
2003 4,170.00
2004 564.00
2005 598.00
2006 829.00
2007 1,150.00
2008 9,124.00
2009 17,725.00
2010 25,462.00
2011 41,221.00
2012 48,490.00
2013 48,183.00
2014 39,698.00
2015 32,929.00
2016 30,529.00
2017 25,657.00
2018 18,554.00
2019 16,107.00
2020 1,898.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration