Title:               Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Belgium
Series ID:           SMPOPREFGBEL
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   55000
1961-01-01   53000
1962-01-01   51000
1963-01-01   50000
1964-01-01   47000
1965-01-01   47000
1966-01-01   40000
1967-01-01   34000
1968-01-01   33000
1969-01-01   30000
1970-01-01   31500
1971-01-01   29000
1972-01-01   29000
1973-01-01   20000
1974-01-01   11100
1975-01-01   16788
1976-01-01   17000
1977-01-01   17000
1978-01-01   17000
1979-01-01   32000
1980-01-01   33000
1981-01-01   35000
1982-01-01   21000
1983-01-01   35000
1984-01-01   36400
1985-01-01   36600
1986-01-01   35900
1987-01-01   22000
1988-01-01   23117
1989-01-01   25531
1990-01-01   25911
1991-01-01   24071
1992-01-01   24292
1993-01-01   24908
1994-01-01   19497
1995-01-01   31691
1996-01-01   36060
1997-01-01   36060
1998-01-01   15501
1999-01-01   16747
2000-01-01   18821
2001-01-01   12252
2002-01-01   12560
2003-01-01   12583
2004-01-01   13522
2005-01-01   15277
2006-01-01   16811
2007-01-01   17578
2008-01-01   17025
2009-01-01   15536
2010-01-01   17891
2011-01-01   22396
2012-01-01   22023
2013-01-01   25617
2014-01-01   29170
2015-01-01   35302
2016-01-01   42158
2017-01-01   42158
2018-01-01   42158
2019-01-01   61662
2020-01-01   64973
2021-01-01   74063
2022-01-01  151408