Mauritania - 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 Mauritania was 37,941 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 31 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84,310 in 1995 and a minimum value of 29,742 in 2000.

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
1989 48,236
1990 65,995
1991 79,874
1992 79,594
1993 67,887
1994 68,039
1995 84,310
1996 83,231
1997 70,294
1998 70,221
1999 29,942
2000 29,742
2001 29,850
2002 30,130
2003 30,518
2004 31,104
2005 31,650
2006 33,420
2007 33,095
2008 45,592
2009 39,134
2010 37,721
2011 39,919
2012 33,747
2013 34,239
2014 34,103
2015 34,656
2016 36,263
2017 36,525
2018 37,050
2019 37,423
2020 37,941

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration