Iceland - 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 Iceland was 1,510.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,510.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 39.00 in 2008.

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 85.00
1991 141.00
1992 154.00
1993 160.00
1994 160.00
1995 197.00
1996 232.00
1997 252.00
1998 286.00
1999 245.00
2000 235.00
2001 204.00
2002 197.00
2003 226.00
2004 226.00
2005 284.00
2006 254.00
2007 41.00
2008 39.00
2009 58.00
2010 72.00
2011 55.00
2012 55.00
2013 72.00
2014 93.00
2015 170.00
2016 245.00
2017 361.00
2018 549.00
2019 894.00
2020 1,510.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration