Armenia - 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 Armenia was 10,518.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 203,690.00 in 1997 and a minimum value of 170.00 in 1964.

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
1964 170.00
1968 200.00
1969 200.00
1970 200.00
1971 4,070.00
1972 3,500.00
1977 440.00
1978 420.00
1979 700.00
1980 333.00
1981 333.00
1982 733.00
1983 333.00
1984 333.00
1985 333.00
1986 528.00
1987 208.00
1988 300.00
1992 195,000.00
1993 200,116.00
1994 201,837.00
1995 201,439.00
1996 203,232.00
1997 203,690.00
1998 193,147.00
1999 193,228.00
2000 5,787.00
2001 7,206.00
2002 13,244.00
2003 13,158.00
2004 13,409.00
2005 13,965.00
2006 14,913.00
2007 15,435.00
2008 16,333.00
2009 18,004.00
2010 17,553.00
2011 16,491.00
2012 15,937.00
2013 11,995.00
2014 11,839.00
2015 11,211.00
2016 10,707.00
2017 10,786.00
2018 11,040.00
2019 10,962.00
2020 10,518.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration