High income - 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 High income was 40,244 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 381,258 in 1997 and a minimum value of 38,461 in 2017.

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 53,101
1991 45,705
1992 205,198
1993 219,402
1994 156,698
1995 301,762
1996 351,773
1997 381,258
1998 359,622
1999 367,926
2000 346,401
2001 301,754
2002 315,154
2003 268,363
2004 244,466
2005 156,721
2006 128,161
2007 120,370
2008 113,793
2009 92,437
2010 81,638
2011 79,755
2012 80,523
2013 65,456
2014 56,443
2015 49,417
2016 38,716
2017 38,461
2018 39,226
2019 39,103
2020 40,244

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration