India - 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 India was 12,428.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,455.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 10.00 in 1988.

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
1988 10.00
1989 13.00
1990 197.00
1991 406.00
1992 1,021.00
1993 1,491.00
1994 3,266.00
1995 5,011.00
1996 7,546.00
1997 8,918.00
1998 9,663.00
1999 9,846.00
2000 11,397.00
2001 11,560.00
2002 14,349.00
2003 13,703.00
2004 13,335.00
2005 16,275.00
2006 17,797.00
2007 20,455.00
2008 19,551.00
2009 19,496.00
2010 17,766.00
2011 16,226.00
2012 14,245.00
2013 11,032.00
2014 10,431.00
2015 9,882.00
2016 7,288.00
2017 7,926.00
2018 9,586.00
2019 11,787.00
2020 12,428.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration