Senegal - 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 Senegal was 14,004.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60,006.00 in 1990 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1988.

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
1988 5.00
1989 15,006.00
1990 60,006.00
1991 25,137.00
1992 15,463.00
1993 22,594.00
1994 25,619.00
1995 17,587.00
1996 17,630.00
1997 17,163.00
1998 9,712.00
1999 11,598.00
2000 11,077.00
2001 8,554.00
2002 12,069.00
2003 8,347.00
2004 8,325.00
2005 8,662.00
2006 15,150.00
2007 15,886.00
2008 16,007.00
2009 16,306.00
2010 16,255.00
2011 17,710.00
2012 18,717.00
2013 19,815.00
2014 23,110.00
2015 21,267.00
2016 23,054.00
2017 26,584.00
2018 18,208.00
2019 17,208.00
2020 14,004.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration