Madagascar - Refugee population by country or territory of origin

Refugee population by country or territory of origin

The value for Refugee population by country or territory of origin in Madagascar was 283.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 299.00 in 2012 and a minimum value of 36.00 in 2001.

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 origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.

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

See also:

Year Value
1995 77.00
1996 76.00
1997 74.00
1998 66.00
1999 53.00
2000 51.00
2001 36.00
2002 52.00
2003 86.00
2004 132.00
2005 201.00
2006 258.00
2007 282.00
2008 278.00
2009 271.00
2010 266.00
2011 287.00
2012 299.00
2013 298.00
2014 279.00
2015 285.00
2016 292.00
2017 292.00
2018 298.00
2019 298.00
2020 283.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration