NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Switzerland Series ID: SMPOPREFGCHE Source: World Bank Release: World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Persons Date Range: 1960-01-01 to 2022-01-01 Last Updated: 2023-07-04 1:44 PM CDT Notes: 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. World Bank 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 from UNHCR are available online (www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html). The data for 2018 are from UNHCR Global Trends report 2018 and World Bank's estimates (for Palestinian refugees in the UNRWA areas of operation). Source Indicator: SM.POP.REFG DATE VALUE 1960-01-01 20000 1961-01-01 20000 1962-01-01 20000 1963-01-01 20000 1964-01-01 20000 1965-01-01 20000 1966-01-01 20500 1967-01-01 21000 1968-01-01 26000 1969-01-01 30000 1970-01-01 31000 1971-01-01 30000 1972-01-01 35000 1973-01-01 35000 1974-01-01 35000 1975-01-01 35000 1976-01-01 35000 1977-01-01 30000 1978-01-01 30000 1979-01-01 30000 1980-01-01 32000 1981-01-01 40000 1982-01-01 33404 1983-01-01 32312 1984-01-01 31201 1985-01-01 30726 1986-01-01 31343 1987-01-01 31707 1988-01-01 31949 1989-01-01 36763 1990-01-01 40943 1991-01-01 45622 1992-01-01 51930 1993-01-01 56586 1994-01-01 75295 1995-01-01 82943 1996-01-01 84413 1997-01-01 83205 1998-01-01 81875 1999-01-01 82273 2000-01-01 57624 2001-01-01 58471 2002-01-01 54081 2003-01-01 50126 2004-01-01 47654 2005-01-01 48010 2006-01-01 48508 2007-01-01 45642 2008-01-01 46131 2009-01-01 46204 2010-01-01 48813 2011-01-01 50401 2012-01-01 50733 2013-01-01 52448 2014-01-01 62596 2015-01-01 73326 2016-01-01 82668 2017-01-01 93030 2018-01-01 104011 2019-01-01 110162 2020-01-01 115798 2021-01-01 118829 2022-01-01 182474