Spain - 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 Spain was 103,679 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 103,679 in 2020 and a minimum value of 2,000 in 1961.

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
1961 2,000
1962 2,000
1963 2,000
1964 14,000
1965 14,000
1966 17,000
1967 20,000
1968 20,000
1969 23,000
1970 29,500
1971 38,000
1972 40,000
1973 26,000
1974 18,000
1975 16,000
1976 16,500
1977 15,000
1978 15,000
1979 26,000
1980 21,500
1981 21,500
1982 23,500
1983 23,700
1984 9,900
1985 9,300
1986 10,200
1987 9,200
1988 8,691
1989 8,676
1990 8,303
1991 4,005
1992 4,040
1993 4,990
1994 5,351
1995 5,840
1996 5,672
1997 5,512
1998 5,918
1999 6,708
2000 6,982
2001 6,804
2002 6,783
2003 5,912
2004 5,690
2005 5,369
2006 5,269
2007 5,143
2008 4,649
2009 3,960
2010 3,814
2011 4,220
2012 4,502
2013 4,641
2014 5,797
2015 6,447
2016 12,983
2017 17,541
2018 20,437
2019 57,751
2020 103,679

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration