Mauritania - 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 Mauritania was 93,638.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 33 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93,638.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 26.00 in 1998.

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

See also:

Year Value
1987 50.00
1989 15,000.00
1990 60,000.00
1991 35,200.00
1992 37,500.00
1993 51,548.00
1994 82,225.00
1995 34,392.00
1996 15,877.00
1997 7,512.00
1998 26.00
1999 221.00
2000 350.00
2001 363.00
2002 398.00
2003 475.00
2004 473.00
2005 627.00
2006 771.00
2007 30,465.00
2008 27,036.00
2009 26,789.00
2010 26,709.00
2011 26,535.00
2012 80,500.00
2013 92,767.00
2014 75,629.00
2015 77,390.00
2016 74,147.00
2017 77,425.00
2018 83,184.00
2019 84,901.00
2020 93,638.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration