Niger - 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 Niger was 18,874.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22,306.00 in 1993 and a minimum value of 418.00 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 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
1992 22,006.00
1993 22,306.00
1994 22,019.00
1995 10,289.00
1996 10,359.00
1997 2,783.00
1998 418.00
1999 508.00
2000 483.00
2001 478.00
2002 829.00
2003 716.00
2004 676.00
2005 642.00
2006 803.00
2007 817.00
2008 789.00
2009 812.00
2010 794.00
2011 805.00
2012 824.00
2013 674.00
2014 728.00
2015 1,383.00
2016 1,230.00
2017 1,363.00
2018 2,715.00
2019 3,063.00
2020 18,874.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration