Cambodia - 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 Cambodia was 11,901 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 192,843 in 1980 and a minimum value of 8,536 in 1994.

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
1971 57,000
1972 55,000
1973 35,000
1975 18,830
1976 17,200
1977 76,710
1978 165,120
1979 51,100
1980 192,843
1981 135,077
1982 123,398
1983 91,115
1984 72,468
1985 67,518
1986 54,848
1987 48,589
1988 97,758
1989 75,725
1990 54,364
1991 43,166
1992 28,849
1993 9,751
1994 8,536
1995 61,224
1996 62,240
1997 103,239
1998 76,575
1999 38,318
2000 36,851
2001 34,756
2002 33,451
2003 31,404
2004 18,109
2005 17,804
2006 17,963
2007 17,700
2008 17,250
2009 17,022
2010 16,308
2011 15,201
2012 14,016
2013 13,738
2014 13,066
2015 12,801
2016 12,428
2017 12,238
2018 12,139
2019 11,986
2020 11,901

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration