Tunisia - 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 Tunisia was 2,620.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,085.00 in 2011 and a minimum value of 11.00 in 1994.

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
1960 1,000.00
1961 1,000.00
1962 1,000.00
1963 1,000.00
1964 1,000.00
1965 500.00
1968 1,000.00
1971 100.00
1973 70.00
1990 30.00
1991 130.00
1992 111.00
1993 99.00
1994 11.00
1995 195.00
1996 172.00
1997 497.00
1998 525.00
1999 444.00
2000 428.00
2001 92.00
2002 93.00
2003 87.00
2004 83.00
2005 81.00
2006 85.00
2007 93.00
2008 90.00
2009 86.00
2010 86.00
2011 4,085.00
2012 1,433.00
2013 727.00
2014 895.00
2015 659.00
2016 646.00
2017 726.00
2018 1,061.00
2019 1,732.00
2020 2,620.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration