Ethiopia - 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 Ethiopia was 800,464 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 903,226 in 2018 and a minimum value of 5,400 in 1973.

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
1968 20,000
1969 20,000
1970 21,000
1971 22,730
1972 16,200
1973 5,400
1974 5,910
1975 11,150
1976 10,690
1977 10,940
1978 10,930
1979 10,930
1980 10,930
1981 5,450
1982 5,550
1983 31,370
1984 180,480
1985 180,400
1986 132,400
1987 310,500
1988 679,532
1989 710,166
1990 773,764
1991 529,620
1992 431,824
1993 272,632
1994 348,074
1995 393,479
1996 390,528
1997 323,064
1998 262,158
1999 257,683
2000 197,960
2001 152,554
2002 132,939
2003 130,274
2004 115,979
2005 100,813
2006 96,975
2007 85,179
2008 83,573
2009 121,880
2010 154,288
2011 288,839
2012 376,388
2013 433,933
2014 659,520
2015 736,081
2016 791,631
2017 889,412
2018 903,226
2019 733,123
2020 800,464

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration