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 Egypt Series ID: SMPOPREFGEGY Source: World Bank Release: World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Persons Date Range: 1964-01-01 to 2022-01-01 Last Updated: 2023-07-04 1:43 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 1964-01-01 470 1965-01-01 5000 1966-01-01 . 1967-01-01 . 1968-01-01 . 1969-01-01 4800 1970-01-01 5000 1971-01-01 5020 1972-01-01 7370 1973-01-01 2600 1974-01-01 4000 1975-01-01 4000 1976-01-01 4000 1977-01-01 4510 1978-01-01 5000 1979-01-01 4850 1980-01-01 1440 1981-01-01 1580 1982-01-01 5500 1983-01-01 35000 1984-01-01 5500 1985-01-01 1090 1986-01-01 1080 1987-01-01 1150 1988-01-01 1620 1989-01-01 1740 1990-01-01 1991 1991-01-01 2245 1992-01-01 5509 1993-01-01 6709 1994-01-01 7218 1995-01-01 5401 1996-01-01 6026 1997-01-01 6486 1998-01-01 6276 1999-01-01 6553 2000-01-01 6840 2001-01-01 7223 2002-01-01 80488 2003-01-01 88745 2004-01-01 90335 2005-01-01 88934 2006-01-01 88014 2007-01-01 97550 2008-01-01 97851 2009-01-01 94392 2010-01-01 95044 2011-01-01 95078 2012-01-01 109923 2013-01-01 230070 2014-01-01 236085 2015-01-01 212492 2016-01-01 213515 2017-01-01 232647 2018-01-01 246746 2019-01-01 258391 2020-01-01 272826 2021-01-01 280686 2022-01-01 294632