Other small states - 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 Other small states was 25,622 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 277,928 in 1999 and a minimum value of 5,666 in 1990.

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
1990 5,666
1991 14,929
1992 80,801
1993 91,008
1994 127,848
1995 125,117
1996 128,176
1997 120,125
1998 121,820
1999 277,928
2000 238,239
2001 189,482
2002 146,153
2003 109,565
2004 110,651
2005 112,803
2006 114,063
2007 116,461
2008 111,780
2009 97,619
2010 84,762
2011 68,728
2012 53,707
2013 40,590
2014 35,037
2015 33,019
2016 30,896
2017 30,754
2018 33,354
2019 33,126
2020 25,622

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration