Korea - 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 Korea was 3,498.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,498.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1995.

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
1978 70.00
1979 170.00
1981 60.00
1982 70.00
1987 60.00
1988 120.00
1989 230.00
1990 230.00
1991 162.00
1992 149.00
1995 5.00
1996 5.00
1997 5.00
1999 5.00
2000 5.00
2001 5.00
2002 15.00
2003 20.00
2004 37.00
2005 61.00
2006 90.00
2007 108.00
2008 162.00
2009 253.00
2010 352.00
2011 389.00
2012 488.00
2013 548.00
2014 1,164.00
2015 1,455.00
2016 1,798.00
2017 2,238.00
2018 2,890.00
2019 3,196.00
2020 3,498.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration