Paraguay - 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 Paraguay was 119.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 119.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.00 in 2001.

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
1990 19.00
1991 8.00
1992 10.00
1993 15.00
1994 64.00
1995 51.00
1996 45.00
1997 19.00
1998 16.00
1999 20.00
2000 20.00
2001 6.00
2002 26.00
2003 34.00
2004 34.00
2005 42.00
2006 103.00
2007 99.00
2008 97.00
2009 77.00
2010 86.00
2011 91.00
2012 101.00
2013 91.00
2014 87.00
2015 88.00
2016 68.00
2017 77.00
2018 73.00
2019 84.00
2020 119.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration