Nepal - 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 Nepal was 19,565 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 132,432 in 2002 and a minimum value of 7,000 in 1964.

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
1964 7,000
1965 7,000
1966 7,000
1967 7,180
1968 7,730
1969 7,990
1970 8,060
1971 7,930
1972 8,000
1973 8,000
1974 8,100
1975 8,200
1976 8,300
1977 8,400
1978 8,500
1979 8,600
1980 8,700
1981 8,800
1982 9,800
1983 10,800
1984 11,800
1985 12,800
1986 13,800
1987 14,800
1988 15,800
1989 16,850
1990 17,800
1991 28,319
1992 95,251
1993 105,344
1994 123,270
1995 124,751
1996 126,814
1997 129,158
1998 126,104
1999 127,942
2000 129,234
2001 130,945
2002 132,432
2003 123,662
2004 124,920
2005 126,432
2006 128,172
2007 130,678
2008 124,826
2009 108,457
2010 89,804
2011 72,651
2012 56,263
2013 46,303
2014 38,490
2015 32,669
2016 25,249
2017 21,467
2018 20,804
2019 19,570
2020 19,565

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration