United Kingdom - 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 United Kingdom was 67.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 198.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 67.00 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 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
1994 106.00
1995 75.00
1996 69.00
1997 75.00
1998 88.00
1999 102.00
2000 109.00
2001 104.00
2002 158.00
2003 146.00
2004 141.00
2005 134.00
2006 170.00
2007 198.00
2008 182.00
2009 155.00
2010 152.00
2011 150.00
2012 150.00
2013 140.00
2014 137.00
2015 128.00
2016 78.00
2017 85.00
2018 84.00
2019 69.00
2020 67.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration