OECD members - 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 OECD members was 310,255 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 796,891 in 2007 and a minimum value of 46,950 in 1992.

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
1990 58,105
1991 52,126
1992 46,950
1993 85,179
1994 108,856
1995 101,531
1996 93,159
1997 80,898
1998 69,611
1999 62,515
2000 67,920
2001 77,254
2002 265,274
2003 261,832
2004 251,819
2005 270,085
2006 335,784
2007 796,891
2008 608,492
2009 556,029
2010 562,295
2011 557,017
2012 552,133
2013 485,887
2014 448,470
2015 423,991
2016 388,455
2017 274,313
2018 230,886
2019 297,455
2020 310,255

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration