Denmark - 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 Denmark was 36,718 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73,600 in 2002 and a minimum value of 1,764 in 1977.

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
1960 2,300
1961 2,200
1962 2,200
1963 2,200
1970 2,000
1971 4,400
1972 3,687
1973 3,687
1974 2,900
1975 2,125
1976 2,100
1977 1,764
1978 1,800
1979 1,800
1980 1,800
1981 1,800
1982 1,800
1983 3,600
1984 8,500
1985 8,500
1986 23,000
1987 30,000
1988 27,310
1989 30,726
1990 32,887
1991 36,100
1992 39,124
1993 44,570
1994 49,564
1995 64,850
1996 66,371
1997 68,106
1998 68,996
1999 68,982
2000 71,017
2001 73,284
2002 73,600
2003 69,855
2004 65,305
2005 44,362
2006 36,650
2007 26,779
2008 23,385
2009 20,340
2010 17,907
2011 13,386
2012 11,797
2013 13,153
2014 17,767
2015 27,312
2016 33,501
2017 35,668
2018 36,623
2019 37,533
2020 36,718

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration