Spain - 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 Spain was 52.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,442.00 in 2006 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1980.

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
1970 680.00
1971 670.00
1972 650.00
1973 390.00
1974 210.00
1975 140.00
1976 510.00
1980 5.00
1981 5.00
1982 50.00
1983 600.00
1984 60.00
1985 60.00
1987 60.00
1994 42.00
1995 36.00
1996 217.00
1997 214.00
1998 57.00
1999 49.00
2000 75.00
2001 45.00
2002 58.00
2003 51.00
2004 53.00
2005 49.00
2006 2,442.00
2007 37.00
2008 26.00
2009 34.00
2010 41.00
2011 42.00
2012 55.00
2013 56.00
2014 60.00
2015 60.00
2016 34.00
2017 39.00
2018 46.00
2019 51.00
2020 52.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration