Israel - 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 Israel was 398.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,539.00 in 2007 and a minimum value of 5.00 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 5.00
1989 5.00
1990 14.00
1991 28.00
1992 37.00
1993 114.00
1994 888.00
1995 937.00
1996 1,121.00
1997 988.00
1998 832.00
1999 473.00
2000 414.00
2001 361.00
2002 561.00
2003 626.00
2004 669.00
2005 624.00
2006 876.00
2007 1,539.00
2008 1,486.00
2009 1,298.00
2010 1,290.00
2011 1,323.00
2012 1,326.00
2013 1,026.00
2014 967.00
2015 787.00
2016 487.00
2017 469.00
2018 492.00
2019 452.00
2020 398.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration