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 Lebanon Series ID: SMPOPREFGLBN 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 1:41 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 137884 1961-01-01 142670 1962-01-01 146969 1963-01-01 152747 1964-01-01 158584 1965-01-01 163069 1966-01-01 164692 1967-01-01 122967 1968-01-01 173437 1969-01-01 178049 1970-01-01 177862 1971-01-01 184814 1972-01-01 188937 1973-01-01 193107 1974-01-01 192830 1975-01-01 197974 1976-01-01 899238 1977-01-01 906521 1978-01-01 220248 1979-01-01 226370 1980-01-01 235105 1981-01-01 237081 1982-01-01 242017 1983-01-01 255513 1984-01-01 263190 1985-01-01 272504 1986-01-01 280798 1987-01-01 288657 1988-01-01 296518 1989-01-01 301221 1990-01-01 309021 1991-01-01 320731 1992-01-01 330231 1993-01-01 335846 1994-01-01 343480 1995-01-01 351640 1996-01-01 358666 1997-01-01 365160 1998-01-01 371294 1999-01-01 377612 2000-01-01 382744 2001-01-01 387734 2002-01-01 392059 2003-01-01 397051 2004-01-01 400905 2005-01-01 405248 2006-01-01 428602 2007-01-01 464292 2008-01-01 472601 2009-01-01 476038 2010-01-01 438123 2011-01-01 445125 2012-01-01 575456 2013-01-01 1303867 2014-01-01 1606698 2015-01-01 1529213 2016-01-01 1476623 2017-01-01 1468431 2018-01-01 1424728 2019-01-01 1392174 2020-01-01 1349925 2021-01-01 1328541 2022-01-01 1306143