Small states - 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 Small states was 31,974 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 278,909 in 1999 and a minimum value of 12,291 in 1990.

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
1990 12,291
1991 20,855
1992 83,365
1993 91,996
1994 129,035
1995 126,298
1996 129,396
1997 121,260
1998 122,788
1999 278,909
2000 239,219
2001 190,733
2002 147,807
2003 111,427
2004 113,023
2005 115,831
2006 118,135
2007 121,404
2008 117,043
2009 103,148
2010 90,579
2011 74,974
2012 60,264
2013 47,442
2014 42,262
2015 40,336
2016 37,445
2017 37,596
2018 40,457
2019 39,870
2020 31,974

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration