Armenia - 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 Armenia was 107,930 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 334,000 in 1993 and a minimum value of 2,849 in 2012.

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
1992 300,000
1993 334,000
1994 304,040
1995 218,950
1996 218,950
1997 219,000
1998 310,012
1999 296,215
2000 280,586
2001 264,337
2002 247,549
2003 239,289
2004 235,233
2005 219,547
2006 113,713
2007 4,564
2008 3,952
2009 3,605
2010 3,292
2011 2,913
2012 2,849
2013 13,727
2014 17,635
2015 19,314
2016 17,883
2017 17,968
2018 17,966
2019 17,980
2020 107,930

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration