Colombia - 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 Colombia was 189,889.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 551,741.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 35.00 in 1988.

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
1981 50.00
1982 100.00
1985 60.00
1986 50.00
1987 50.00
1988 35.00
1989 65.00
1990 493.00
1991 738.00
1992 841.00
1993 1,040.00
1994 1,361.00
1995 1,902.00
1996 2,168.00
1997 2,376.00
1998 3,536.00
1999 4,412.00
2000 9,278.00
2001 17,937.00
2002 30,624.00
2003 37,992.00
2004 47,380.00
2005 60,447.00
2006 72,793.00
2007 551,741.00
2008 373,532.00
2009 389,753.00
2010 395,579.00
2011 395,950.00
2012 394,112.00
2013 396,711.00
2014 360,291.00
2015 340,116.00
2016 311,059.00
2017 191,635.00
2018 138,583.00
2019 189,254.00
2020 189,889.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration