Turkmenistan - 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 Turkmenistan was 20.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23,324.00 in 1995 and a minimum value of 20.00 in 2020.

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
1993 15,400.00
1994 15,400.00
1995 23,324.00
1996 15,582.00
1997 15,787.00
1998 14,626.00
1999 18,461.00
2000 14,188.00
2001 14,003.00
2002 13,691.00
2003 13,509.00
2004 13,252.00
2005 11,965.00
2006 751.00
2007 126.00
2008 81.00
2009 62.00
2010 64.00
2011 59.00
2012 46.00
2013 45.00
2014 34.00
2015 25.00
2016 26.00
2017 22.00
2018 21.00
2019 21.00
2020 20.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration