France - 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 France was 49.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 286.00 in 2005 and a minimum value of 14.00 in 1995.

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
1994 20.00
1995 14.00
1996 46.00
1997 60.00
1998 62.00
1999 60.00
2000 74.00
2001 41.00
2002 92.00
2003 110.00
2004 112.00
2005 286.00
2006 79.00
2007 99.00
2008 97.00
2009 80.00
2010 90.00
2011 92.00
2012 94.00
2013 92.00
2014 84.00
2015 90.00
2016 50.00
2017 54.00
2018 59.00
2019 50.00
2020 49.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration