Malaysia - 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 Malaysia was 1,078.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,078.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1991.

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

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Year Value
1991 5.00
1992 5.00
1993 5.00
1994 83.00
1995 82.00
1996 105.00
1997 88.00
1998 87.00
1999 83.00
2000 79.00
2001 77.00
2002 117.00
2003 235.00
2004 287.00
2005 388.00
2006 575.00
2007 611.00
2008 607.00
2009 530.00
2010 550.00
2011 531.00
2012 523.00
2013 478.00
2014 458.00
2015 435.00
2016 453.00
2017 540.00
2018 817.00
2019 906.00
2020 1,078.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration