Sudan - 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 Sudan was 1,040,308 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,164,000 in 1985 and a minimum value of 33,000 in 1967.

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
1967 33,000
1968 38,300
1969 37,350
1970 60,840
1971 60,000
1972 49,020
1973 50,900
1974 53,700
1975 95,500
1976 110,100
1977 150,000
1978 270,000
1979 351,700
1980 493,000
1981 553,000
1982 637,000
1983 690,000
1984 971,000
1985 1,164,000
1986 974,200
1987 807,070
1988 745,000
1989 767,729
1990 1,031,050
1991 729,200
1992 725,900
1993 745,200
1994 727,174
1995 674,071
1996 393,874
1997 374,414
1998 391,496
1999 390,995
2000 414,928
2001 349,209
2002 328,177
2003 138,162
2004 141,587
2005 147,255
2006 196,200
2007 222,720
2008 181,605
2009 186,292
2010 178,305
2011 139,407
2012 152,188
2013 159,848
2014 277,818
2015 309,632
2016 421,459
2017 906,590
2018 1,078,280
2019 1,055,489
2020 1,040,308

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration