Italy - 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 Italy was 128,033 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 207,602 in 2019 and a minimum value of 5,440 in 1998.

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
1960 15,500
1961 14,500
1962 14,300
1963 14,600
1964 14,000
1965 15,000
1966 14,000
1967 13,000
1968 13,000
1969 14,000
1970 13,000
1971 12,700
1972 12,600
1973 12,600
1974 13,000
1975 11,900
1976 11,900
1977 11,700
1978 11,700
1979 14,100
1980 21,531
1981 22,601
1982 22,865
1983 22,062
1984 21,482
1985 22,386
1986 21,505
1987 20,413
1988 19,260
1989 13,893
1990 10,816
1991 9,796
1992 9,242
1993 50,266
1994 73,058
1995 74,298
1996 64,712
1997 66,601
1998 5,440
1999 6,004
2000 6,813
2001 8,541
2002 10,031
2003 12,812
2004 15,668
2005 20,674
2006 26,870
2007 38,061
2008 47,059
2009 54,962
2010 56,402
2011 58,066
2012 64,782
2013 76,248
2014 93,712
2015 118,036
2016 147,362
2017 167,330
2018 189,227
2019 207,602
2020 128,033

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration