Norway - 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 Norway was 49,713 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59,512 in 2016 and a minimum value of 1,000 in 1976.

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 3,000
1961 3,000
1962 3,000
1963 3,000
1970 2,000
1971 3,000
1972 3,000
1973 3,000
1974 3,000
1975 3,000
1976 1,000
1977 6,000
1978 6,000
1979 6,000
1980 6,000
1981 6,000
1982 6,000
1983 10,000
1984 10,000
1985 11,800
1986 13,200
1987 15,000
1988 10,952
1989 18,500
1990 19,581
1991 29,054
1992 29,846
1993 38,375
1994 44,617
1995 47,607
1996 48,409
1997 47,372
1998 45,325
1999 43,441
2000 47,700
2001 50,122
2002 50,421
2003 46,107
2004 44,031
2005 43,015
2006 43,315
2007 34,499
2008 36,076
2009 37,806
2010 40,245
2011 40,671
2012 42,805
2013 46,088
2014 47,025
2015 50,377
2016 59,512
2017 59,230
2018 57,004
2019 53,882
2020 49,713

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration