Bosnia and Herzegovina - 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina was 5,257 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65,645 in 1999 and a minimum value of 5,224 in 2017.

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
1997 40,000
1998 40,000
1999 65,645
2000 38,150
2001 32,744
2002 28,020
2003 22,515
2004 22,209
2005 10,566
2006 10,315
2007 7,364
2008 7,254
2009 7,130
2010 7,014
2011 6,932
2012 6,904
2013 6,924
2014 6,883
2015 6,789
2016 5,266
2017 5,224
2018 5,227
2019 5,241
2020 5,257

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration