Korea - 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 Korea was 156.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,333.00 in 2006 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 1991.

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

See also:

Year Value
1991 5.00
1992 5.00
1993 5.00
1994 17.00
1995 29.00
1996 40.00
1997 50.00
1998 63.00
1999 72.00
2000 69.00
2001 83.00
2002 244.00
2003 236.00
2004 269.00
2005 266.00
2006 1,333.00
2007 1,183.00
2008 1,099.00
2009 567.00
2010 578.00
2011 508.00
2012 555.00
2013 495.00
2014 478.00
2015 346.00
2016 243.00
2017 239.00
2018 274.00
2019 180.00
2020 156.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration