Rwanda - 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 Rwanda was 139,501.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 277,000.00 in 1993 and a minimum value of 250.00 in 1966.

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
1965 3,000.00
1966 250.00
1972 4,000.00
1973 6,500.00
1974 6,000.00
1975 7,400.00
1976 7,500.00
1977 7,500.00
1978 7,600.00
1979 7,900.00
1980 10,450.00
1981 18,150.00
1982 62,000.00
1983 49,500.00
1984 48,940.00
1985 20,110.00
1986 19,400.00
1987 19,470.00
1988 22,202.00
1989 23,290.00
1990 23,601.00
1991 34,004.00
1992 25,162.00
1993 277,000.00
1994 6,000.00
1995 7,792.00
1996 25,257.00
1997 34,227.00
1998 33,398.00
1999 34,363.00
2000 28,398.00
2001 34,793.00
2002 30,861.00
2003 36,608.00
2004 50,221.00
2005 45,202.00
2006 49,191.00
2007 53,574.00
2008 55,067.00
2009 54,016.00
2010 55,398.00
2011 55,325.00
2012 58,217.00
2013 73,352.00
2014 73,822.00
2015 144,739.00
2016 156,065.00
2017 170,991.00
2018 145,359.00
2019 145,054.00
2020 139,501.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration