Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Countries with Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Countries with Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations
Series ID SMPOPREFGFCS
Source World Bank
Release World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1990-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-07-02 2:08 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. 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
1990-01-01 4761409
1991-01-01 4026168
1992-01-01 4104639
1993-01-01 4148430
1994-01-01 5421616
1995-01-01 5042125
1996-01-01 3903846
1997-01-01 3399299
1998-01-01 3382763
1999-01-01 3503297
2000-01-01 3655065
2001-01-01 3637441
2002-01-01 3694336
2003-01-01 3462749
2004-01-01 3566246
2005-01-01 3646852
2006-01-01 4412608
2007-01-01 5544443
2008-01-01 5208039
2009-01-01 5462592
2010-01-01 5396734
2011-01-01 5455182
2012-01-01 5623247
2013-01-01 6436198
2014-01-01 7667810
2015-01-01 7905106
2016-01-01 8046382
2017-01-01 8760121
2018-01-01 9027673
2019-01-01 8880008
2020-01-01 8943406
2021-01-01 9171243
2022-01-01 9285106
2023-01-01 9827523

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