Zimbabwe - 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 Zimbabwe was 8,614.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 197,640.00 in 1979 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1989.

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
1975 14,720.00
1976 31,220.00
1977 76,520.00
1978 163,160.00
1979 197,640.00
1980 160.00
1981 190.00
1983 3,200.00
1984 3,760.00
1985 4,250.00
1986 3,230.00
1987 3,830.00
1988 629.00
1989 5.00
1990 5.00
1991 128.00
1992 8.00
1993 14.00
1994 38.00
1995 37.00
1996 36.00
1997 37.00
1998 40.00
1999 40.00
2000 109.00
2001 257.00
2002 4,024.00
2003 7,154.00
2004 9,557.00
2005 11,246.00
2006 12,774.00
2007 14,366.00
2008 16,824.00
2009 22,441.00
2010 24,080.00
2011 25,033.00
2012 22,082.00
2013 19,719.00
2014 22,478.00
2015 21,332.00
2016 18,141.00
2017 17,420.00
2018 15,618.00
2019 10,045.00
2020 8,614.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration