Serbia - 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 Serbia was 26,130.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 650,695.00 in 1995 and a minimum value of 517.00 in 1991.

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
1965 25,820.00
1966 26,100.00
1967 26,210.00
1968 26,270.00
1969 26,120.00
1970 26,120.00
1971 24,000.00
1972 26,700.00
1973 26,290.00
1974 26,300.00
1975 26,300.00
1976 26,000.00
1977 2,000.00
1978 1,970.00
1979 1,970.00
1980 1,970.00
1981 1,920.00
1982 2,030.00
1983 2,020.00
1984 3,150.00
1985 3,530.00
1986 2,180.00
1987 1,400.00
1988 850.00
1989 955.00
1990 920.00
1991 517.00
1992 516,430.00
1993 479,110.00
1994 450,694.00
1995 650,695.00
1996 563,210.00
1997 550,064.00
1998 502,035.00
1999 501,263.00
2000 484,390.00
2001 400,306.00
2002 354,400.00
2003 291,397.00
2004 276,677.00
2005 148,259.00
2006 98,995.00
2007 97,991.00
2008 96,735.00
2009 86,348.00
2010 73,604.00
2011 70,702.00
2012 66,367.00
2013 57,079.00
2014 43,749.00
2015 35,326.00
2016 36,518.00
2017 32,206.00
2018 30,946.00
2019 26,427.00
2020 26,130.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration