Bolivia - 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 Bolivia was 580.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,930.00 in 1971 and a minimum value of 26.00 in 1989.

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
1970 1,400.00
1971 2,930.00
1972 1,730.00
1974 1,650.00
1975 90.00
1976 60.00
1980 170.00
1981 100.00
1982 270.00
1989 26.00
1990 729.00
1991 67.00
1992 28.00
1993 40.00
1994 177.00
1995 180.00
1996 177.00
1997 163.00
1998 187.00
1999 176.00
2000 177.00
2001 157.00
2002 215.00
2003 260.00
2004 280.00
2005 263.00
2006 371.00
2007 423.00
2008 455.00
2009 570.00
2010 589.00
2011 615.00
2012 616.00
2013 594.00
2014 594.00
2015 566.00
2016 530.00
2017 520.00
2018 502.00
2019 514.00
2020 580.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration