Morocco - 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 Morocco was 8,161.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,161.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 36.00 in 1996.

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 2,700.00
1961 2,900.00
1962 2,900.00
1963 3,200.00
1964 3,000.00
1965 2,360.00
1966 2,180.00
1967 3,000.00
1968 1,480.00
1969 1,440.00
1970 1,440.00
1971 1,430.00
1972 1,380.00
1973 860.00
1974 620.00
1975 510.00
1976 360.00
1977 500.00
1978 500.00
1979 500.00
1980 340.00
1981 500.00
1982 510.00
1983 540.00
1984 800.00
1985 860.00
1986 800.00
1987 800.00
1988 800.00
1989 303.00
1990 311.00
1991 322.00
1992 319.00
1993 336.00
1994 336.00
1995 38.00
1996 36.00
1997 42.00
1998 901.00
1999 901.00
2000 2,107.00
2001 2,093.00
2002 2,127.00
2003 2,119.00
2004 189.00
2005 210.00
2006 495.00
2007 779.00
2008 768.00
2009 776.00
2010 798.00
2011 736.00
2012 745.00
2013 1,458.00
2014 1,205.00
2015 3,899.00
2016 4,762.00
2017 4,703.00
2018 5,932.00
2019 6,642.00
2020 8,161.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration