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 Greece Series ID: SMPOPREFGGRC 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 1:43 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 1960-01-01 15500 1961-01-01 15200 1962-01-01 15700 1963-01-01 15400 1964-01-01 16000 1965-01-01 15560 1966-01-01 15300 1967-01-01 12270 1968-01-01 8260 1969-01-01 6330 1970-01-01 5710 1971-01-01 5780 1972-01-01 3350 1973-01-01 2940 1974-01-01 2710 1975-01-01 2600 1976-01-01 2560 1977-01-01 2610 1978-01-01 2520 1979-01-01 3770 1980-01-01 3750 1981-01-01 3990 1982-01-01 3950 1983-01-01 4090 1984-01-01 4320 1985-01-01 4360 1986-01-01 3280 1987-01-01 4630 1988-01-01 8262 1989-01-01 7490 1990-01-01 8488 1991-01-01 8989 1992-01-01 8456 1993-01-01 7859 1994-01-01 7773 1995-01-01 4428 1996-01-01 5780 1997-01-01 5520 1998-01-01 6145 1999-01-01 6283 2000-01-01 6653 2001-01-01 6927 2002-01-01 2778 2003-01-01 2762 2004-01-01 2479 2005-01-01 2394 2006-01-01 2292 2007-01-01 2228 2008-01-01 2169 2009-01-01 1700 2010-01-01 1443 2011-01-01 1566 2012-01-01 2090 2013-01-01 3468 2014-01-01 10292 2015-01-01 24831 2016-01-01 46411 2017-01-01 38988 2018-01-01 61446 2019-01-01 80454 2020-01-01 103101 2021-01-01 119650 2022-01-01 160761