Tajikistan - 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 Tajikistan was 2,224.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 107,508.00 in 1996 and a minimum value of 541.00 in 2008.

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
1992 60,008.00
1993 70,108.00
1994 57,143.00
1995 58,960.00
1996 107,508.00
1997 75,880.00
1998 56,350.00
1999 45,166.00
2000 59,937.00
2001 56,107.00
2002 63,264.00
2003 58,935.00
2004 56,776.00
2005 54,753.00
2006 646.00
2007 887.00
2008 541.00
2009 556.00
2010 573.00
2011 604.00
2012 669.00
2013 657.00
2014 722.00
2015 790.00
2016 932.00
2017 1,369.00
2018 1,695.00
2019 1,987.00
2020 2,224.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration