Azerbaijan - 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 Azerbaijan was 101,531 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 329,655 in 1998 and a minimum value of 9,707 in 2015.

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
1992 300,000
1993 328,005
1994 299,092
1995 200,519
1996 236,086
1997 234,949
1998 329,655
1999 311,131
2000 284,278
2001 268,755
2002 260,217
2003 253,248
2004 250,584
2005 233,678
2006 126,068
2007 15,922
2008 16,321
2009 16,945
2010 16,756
2011 16,168
2012 15,541
2013 10,808
2014 10,508
2015 9,707
2016 10,118
2017 10,893
2018 11,246
2019 11,626
2020 101,531

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration