West Bank and Gaza - 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 West Bank and Gaza was 100,317 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 428,775 in 2002 and a minimum value of 2,005 in 1987.

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

See also:

Year Value
1976 3,200
1982 9,800
1983 9,110
1985 31,640
1986 52,705
1987 2,005
1988 5,014
1989 8,041
1990 8,521
1991 65,177
1992 95,343
1993 81,472
1994 82,559
1995 72,762
1996 80,202
1997 76,812
1998 77,517
1999 100,602
2000 110,641
2001 349,158
2002 428,775
2003 350,562
2004 349,827
2005 349,663
2006 334,127
2007 341,231
2008 340,002
2009 95,185
2010 93,312
2011 94,142
2012 94,917
2013 96,035
2014 97,207
2015 98,013
2016 97,794
2017 99,630
2018 100,728
2019 96,253
2020 100,317

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration