Small states - 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 Small states was 63,590 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 182,395 in 1991 and a minimum value of 46,696 in 2005.

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
1990 157,121
1991 182,395
1992 121,533
1993 116,852
1994 72,057
1995 64,153
1996 62,430
1997 61,000
1998 52,620
1999 75,895
2000 94,243
2001 91,093
2002 81,805
2003 81,734
2004 68,092
2005 46,696
2006 59,644
2007 61,193
2008 82,493
2009 83,308
2010 77,587
2011 73,422
2012 67,183
2013 68,203
2014 65,602
2015 58,715
2016 59,477
2017 63,909
2018 56,750
2019 58,366
2020 63,590

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration