Other small states - 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 Other small states was 59,120 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 152,421 in 1991 and a minimum value of 46,072 in 2005.

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
1990 126,464
1991 152,421
1992 100,666
1993 107,771
1994 63,123
1995 53,365
1996 51,819
1997 51,708
1998 48,816
1999 72,873
2000 92,864
2001 89,965
2002 80,757
2003 80,873
2004 67,360
2005 46,072
2006 59,156
2007 60,820
2008 82,175
2009 82,997
2010 77,375
2011 73,266
2012 67,081
2013 68,123
2014 65,071
2015 58,004
2016 58,809
2017 62,579
2018 54,870
2019 55,189
2020 59,120

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration