South Africa - 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 South Africa was 494.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38,560.00 in 1984 and a minimum value of 131.00 in 2001.

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
1966 390.00
1967 450.00
1968 740.00
1969 290.00
1970 460.00
1971 850.00
1972 790.00
1973 940.00
1974 1,380.00
1975 1,360.00
1976 2,180.00
1977 2,395.00
1978 3,840.00
1979 7,280.00
1980 24,250.00
1981 24,900.00
1982 28,430.00
1983 34,520.00
1984 38,560.00
1985 38,110.00
1986 33,220.00
1987 26,150.00
1988 24,906.00
1989 17,135.00
1990 14,781.00
1991 11,205.00
1992 9,241.00
1993 9,087.00
1994 1,514.00
1995 492.00
1996 286.00
1997 241.00
1998 184.00
1999 190.00
2000 168.00
2001 131.00
2002 271.00
2003 284.00
2004 261.00
2005 259.00
2006 501.00
2007 474.00
2008 449.00
2009 380.00
2010 374.00
2011 422.00
2012 413.00
2013 424.00
2014 422.00
2015 447.00
2016 452.00
2017 461.00
2018 482.00
2019 441.00
2020 494.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration