Zambia - 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 Zambia was 269.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15,000.00 in 1968 and a minimum value of 15.00 in 1994.

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 15,000.00
1969 13,000.00
1970 9,000.00
1971 750.00
1972 750.00
1973 750.00
1974 4,000.00
1975 750.00
1976 750.00
1979 1,000.00
1980 1,210.00
1981 1,200.00
1982 1,200.00
1983 1,200.00
1992 1,990.00
1993 1,573.00
1994 15.00
1995 22.00
1996 39.00
1997 62.00
1998 75.00
1999 86.00
2000 91.00
2001 55.00
2002 84.00
2003 95.00
2004 119.00
2005 146.00
2006 199.00
2007 192.00
2008 191.00
2009 201.00
2010 221.00
2011 234.00
2012 240.00
2013 230.00
2014 309.00
2015 334.00
2016 256.00
2017 260.00
2018 266.00
2019 259.00
2020 269.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration