Solomon Islands - 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 Solomon Islands was 37.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.00 in 2010 and a minimum value of 27.00 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 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

See also:

Year Value
1995 34.00
1996 34.00
1997 34.00
1998 34.00
1999 34.00
2000 34.00
2001 42.00
2002 55.00
2003 61.00
2004 61.00
2005 27.00
2006 37.00
2007 47.00
2008 51.00
2009 65.00
2010 75.00
2011 72.00
2012 60.00
2013 60.00
2014 70.00
2015 71.00
2016 71.00
2017 57.00
2018 33.00
2019 34.00
2020 37.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration