Brazil - 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 Brazil was 59,147 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59,147 in 2020 and a minimum value of 2,050 in 1995.

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
1969 40,000
1970 40,000
1971 38,000
1972 37,000
1973 35,200
1974 34,000
1975 32,000
1976 30,000
1977 36,000
1978 35,000
1979 25,000
1980 24,000
1981 24,000
1982 5,400
1983 5,400
1984 5,300
1985 5,300
1986 5,300
1987 5,280
1988 5,332
1989 5,331
1990 5,335
1991 5,389
1992 5,439
1993 6,198
1994 2,223
1995 2,050
1996 2,212
1997 2,260
1998 2,345
1999 2,374
2000 2,718
2001 2,877
2002 3,176
2003 3,190
2004 3,333
2005 3,446
2006 3,478
2007 20,764
2008 3,831
2009 4,218
2010 4,346
2011 4,466
2012 4,681
2013 5,185
2014 7,478
2015 8,703
2016 9,674
2017 10,260
2018 11,304
2019 32,844
2020 59,147

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration