Netherlands - 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 Netherlands was 78,911 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 151,919 in 2001 and a minimum value of 7,850 in 1975.

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 12,000
1961 10,000
1962 10,000
1963 9,500
1964 9,500
1965 9,000
1966 8,500
1967 8,000
1968 8,000
1969 8,000
1970 8,524
1971 8,600
1972 8,830
1973 8,400
1974 8,015
1975 7,850
1976 7,900
1977 8,000
1978 8,000
1979 10,000
1980 12,000
1981 13,000
1982 14,000
1983 14,500
1984 15,000
1985 15,500
1986 16,000
1987 24,000
1988 25,963
1989 16,971
1990 17,337
1991 19,020
1992 29,721
1993 43,521
1994 62,152
1995 79,949
1996 102,573
1997 118,057
1998 131,481
1999 138,633
2000 146,174
2001 151,919
2002 148,349
2003 140,877
2004 126,792
2005 118,172
2006 100,565
2007 86,576
2008 77,589
2009 75,996
2010 74,948
2011 74,587
2012 71,893
2013 74,700
2014 82,483
2015 88,518
2016 101,727
2017 103,843
2018 101,824
2019 94,417
2020 78,911

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration