Switzerland - 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 Switzerland was 5.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.00 in 1999 and a minimum value of 5.00 in 2016.

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
1994 8.00
1995 27.00
1996 32.00
1997 54.00
1998 76.00
1999 90.00
2000 69.00
2001 60.00
2002 55.00
2003 34.00
2004 11.00
2005 14.00
2006 38.00
2007 33.00
2008 32.00
2009 19.00
2010 20.00
2011 20.00
2012 16.00
2013 11.00
2014 16.00
2015 16.00
2016 5.00
2017 5.00
2018 5.00
2019 5.00
2020 5.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration