Togo - 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 Togo was 10,808.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23,539.00 in 2012 and a minimum value of 100.00 in 1976.

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 5,000.00
1962 5,000.00
1963 5,000.00
1964 5,000.00
1965 5,000.00
1969 200.00
1976 100.00
1982 200.00
1983 1,770.00
1984 1,800.00
1985 3,050.00
1986 2,610.00
1987 3,460.00
1988 3,422.00
1989 3,401.00
1990 3,477.00
1991 3,406.00
1992 3,353.00
1993 3,280.00
1994 12,367.00
1995 10,877.00
1996 12,588.00
1997 12,682.00
1998 11,816.00
1999 12,113.00
2000 12,223.00
2001 12,257.00
2002 12,295.00
2003 12,396.00
2004 11,286.00
2005 9,288.00
2006 6,330.00
2007 1,330.00
2008 9,377.00
2009 8,534.00
2010 14,051.00
2011 19,271.00
2012 23,539.00
2013 20,613.00
2014 21,773.00
2015 21,949.00
2016 12,486.00
2017 12,425.00
2018 12,335.00
2019 11,964.00
2020 10,808.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration