Senegal - 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 Senegal was 14,366 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90,000 in 1974 and a minimum value of 4,000 in 1981.

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
1963 6,000
1964 30,000
1965 50,000
1966 61,400
1967 59,870
1968 57,210
1969 68,400
1970 67,060
1971 80,000
1972 82,000
1973 84,000
1974 90,000
1975 46,000
1976 38,000
1977 5,000
1978 5,000
1979 5,000
1980 5,000
1981 4,000
1982 5,250
1983 5,140
1984 5,200
1985 5,500
1986 5,510
1987 5,180
1988 5,203
1989 53,345
1990 58,113
1991 71,908
1992 71,620
1993 73,001
1994 72,994
1995 66,762
1996 65,042
1997 57,220
1998 60,822
1999 21,537
2000 20,762
2001 20,703
2002 20,706
2003 20,722
2004 20,802
2005 20,706
2006 20,587
2007 20,417
2008 33,189
2009 22,143
2010 20,670
2011 20,640
2012 14,229
2013 14,241
2014 14,267
2015 14,383
2016 14,575
2017 14,646
2018 14,359
2019 14,467
2020 14,366

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration