Kuwait - 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 Kuwait was 737.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45,590.00 in 1991 and a minimum value of 49.00 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 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
1979 5,000.00
1980 5,000.00
1981 2,000.00
1982 2,220.00
1983 2,220.00
1984 2,810.00
1985 2,280.00
1989 210.00
1991 45,590.00
1992 44,879.00
1993 30,000.00
1994 30,020.00
1995 3,306.00
1996 3,831.00
1997 3,787.00
1998 4,181.00
1999 4,333.00
2000 2,776.00
2001 1,255.00
2002 1,521.00
2003 1,518.00
2004 1,519.00
2005 1,523.00
2006 49.00
2007 38,158.00
2008 38,237.00
2009 222.00
2010 185.00
2011 336.00
2012 676.00
2013 633.00
2014 611.00
2015 736.00
2016 935.00
2017 613.00
2018 671.00
2019 686.00
2020 737.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration