Libya - 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 Libya was 4,184 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27,964 in 2014 and a minimum value of 1,183 in 1993.

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
1993 1,183
1994 2,001
1995 3,973
1996 7,747
1997 8,477
1998 10,555
1999 10,531
2000 11,541
2001 11,662
2002 11,666
2003 11,899
2004 12,164
2005 12,164
2006 2,760
2007 4,090
2008 6,713
2009 9,000
2010 7,922
2011 10,130
2012 7,065
2013 25,561
2014 27,964
2015 9,305
2016 9,311
2017 9,352
2018 8,792
2019 4,730
2020 4,184

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration