Burkina Faso - 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 Burkina Faso was 20,252.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 37 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49,990.00 in 1994 and a minimum value of 70.00 in 1983.

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
1983 70.00
1984 100.00
1985 90.00
1986 220.00
1987 270.00
1988 260.00
1989 360.00
1990 350.00
1991 320.00
1992 5,670.00
1993 6,597.00
1994 49,990.00
1995 29,777.00
1996 28,381.00
1997 1,799.00
1998 562.00
1999 672.00
2000 692.00
2001 457.00
2002 457.00
2003 466.00
2004 494.00
2005 513.00
2006 512.00
2007 535.00
2008 556.00
2009 543.00
2010 530.00
2011 549.00
2012 39,304.00
2013 29,233.00
2014 31,894.00
2015 34,017.00
2016 32,551.00
2017 24,152.00
2018 25,120.00
2019 25,869.00
2020 20,252.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration