Syrian Arab Republic - 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 Syrian Arab Republic was 6,689,582.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,689,582.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of 20.00 in 1987.

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
1968 1,200.00
1969 1,200.00
1979 500.00
1980 500.00
1981 505.00
1982 505.00
1983 526.00
1984 529.00
1985 2,599.00
1986 534.00
1987 20.00
1988 881.00
1989 397.00
1990 2,148.00
1991 3,037.00
1992 4,408.00
1993 5,412.00
1994 7,087.00
1995 7,995.00
1996 8,611.00
1997 8,653.00
1998 8,132.00
1999 6,693.00
2000 5,868.00
2001 4,861.00
2002 18,908.00
2003 20,816.00
2004 21,430.00
2005 16,395.00
2006 12,327.00
2007 13,684.00
2008 15,206.00
2009 17,915.00
2010 18,451.00
2011 19,931.00
2012 729,012.00
2013 2,468,323.00
2014 3,887,490.00
2015 4,873,236.00
2016 5,524,511.00
2017 6,310,498.00
2018 6,654,374.00
2019 6,615,249.00
2020 6,689,582.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration