Ukraine - 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 Ukraine was 2,274 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,321 in 2009 and a minimum value of 2,166 in 2019.

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
1994 5,193
1995 5,193
1996 3,585
1997 4,566
1998 6,101
1999 2,687
2000 2,927
2001 2,958
2002 2,940
2003 2,851
2004 2,442
2005 2,334
2006 2,267
2007 7,272
2008 7,189
2009 7,321
2010 3,016
2011 3,168
2012 2,790
2013 2,956
2014 3,206
2015 3,261
2016 3,292
2017 3,241
2018 2,606
2019 2,166
2020 2,274

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration