Romania - 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 Romania was 1,358.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51,282.00 in 1990 and a minimum value of 60.00 in 1971.

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
1970 100.00
1971 60.00
1972 90.00
1973 90.00
1974 70.00
1975 70.00
1978 60.00
1980 772.00
1981 854.00
1982 1,157.00
1983 1,211.00
1984 962.00
1985 2,201.00
1986 1,024.00
1987 1,890.00
1988 20,247.00
1989 45,978.00
1990 51,282.00
1991 27,177.00
1992 25,118.00
1993 23,566.00
1994 22,273.00
1995 16,977.00
1996 11,872.00
1997 8,955.00
1998 10,924.00
1999 8,560.00
2000 7,348.00
2001 6,052.00
2002 8,842.00
2003 8,384.00
2004 6,043.00
2005 11,495.00
2006 7,224.00
2007 5,299.00
2008 4,747.00
2009 4,350.00
2010 3,926.00
2011 3,422.00
2012 2,802.00
2013 2,331.00
2014 1,917.00
2015 1,731.00
2016 1,195.00
2017 1,210.00
2018 1,155.00
2019 1,352.00
2020 1,358.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration