Lebanon - 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 Lebanon was 5,495.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33,140.00 in 1985 and a minimum value of 439.00 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
1982 12,590.00
1983 27,270.00
1984 30,060.00
1985 33,140.00
1986 630.00
1988 439.00
1989 2,197.00
1990 6,993.00
1991 8,501.00
1992 10,257.00
1993 10,629.00
1994 15,649.00
1995 13,513.00
1996 10,888.00
1997 10,228.00
1998 9,782.00
1999 7,677.00
2000 10,208.00
2001 8,754.00
2002 26,313.00
2003 24,929.00
2004 19,854.00
2005 18,325.00
2006 12,249.00
2007 13,089.00
2008 12,966.00
2009 16,250.00
2010 15,864.00
2011 15,004.00
2012 15,100.00
2013 3,809.00
2014 4,262.00
2015 4,353.00
2016 4,719.00
2017 5,302.00
2018 5,621.00
2019 5,647.00
2020 5,495.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration