Iraq - 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 Iraq was 270,392.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 283,018.00 in 2018 and a minimum value of 400.00 in 1979.

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

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Year Value
1979 400.00
1980 400.00
1981 1,200.00
1982 1,200.00
1983 1,200.00
1984 1,200.00
1985 83,200.00
1986 111,000.00
1987 1,000.00
1990 900.00
1991 87,990.00
1992 115,000.00
1993 109,066.00
1994 119,581.00
1995 116,722.00
1996 112,957.00
1997 104,032.00
1998 104,022.00
1999 128,913.00
2000 127,787.00
2001 128,142.00
2002 134,190.00
2003 46,721.00
2004 46,053.00
2005 50,177.00
2006 44,406.00
2007 42,352.00
2008 39,503.00
2009 35,213.00
2010 34,647.00
2011 35,184.00
2012 98,818.00
2013 246,294.00
2014 271,137.00
2015 277,702.00
2016 261,863.00
2017 277,668.00
2018 283,018.00
2019 273,986.00
2020 270,392.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration