European Union - 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 European Union was 34,447 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 380,732 in 1997 and a minimum value of 34,187 in 2019.

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
1990 90,758
1991 60,794
1992 218,586
1993 230,380
1994 164,517
1995 305,326
1996 350,996
1997 380,732
1998 364,015
1999 375,295
2000 353,399
2001 307,351
2002 322,508
2003 275,075
2004 248,917
2005 168,659
2006 131,728
2007 119,129
2008 112,652
2009 90,724
2010 78,625
2011 74,614
2012 73,458
2013 59,415
2014 49,352
2015 42,148
2016 35,328
2017 34,432
2018 34,374
2019 34,187
2020 34,447

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration