Papua New Guinea - 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 Papua New Guinea was 515.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,006.00 in 1996 and a minimum value of 6.00 in 1999.

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

See also:

Year Value
1995 2,000.00
1996 2,006.00
1997 806.00
1998 216.00
1999 6.00
2000 6.00
2001 6.00
2002 12.00
2003 12.00
2004 12.00
2005 20.00
2006 27.00
2007 33.00
2008 44.00
2009 68.00
2010 87.00
2011 126.00
2012 172.00
2013 219.00
2014 285.00
2015 335.00
2016 401.00
2017 406.00
2018 424.00
2019 475.00
2020 515.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration