Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Series ID SMPOPREFGHPC
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 2:09 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 5630763
1991-01-01 4742660
1992-01-01 4697253
1993-01-01 5476241
1994-01-01 6144254
1995-01-01 5405321
1996-01-01 3883423
1997-01-01 3018010
1998-01-01 2865826
1999-01-01 3032252
2000-01-01 3119830
2001-01-01 2734076
2002-01-01 2734355
2003-01-01 2501040
2004-01-01 2402758
2005-01-01 2226783
2006-01-01 2062693
2007-01-01 1950213
2008-01-01 1714870
2009-01-01 1635732
2010-01-01 1693496
2011-01-01 1932354
2012-01-01 1982315
2013-01-01 2153804
2014-01-01 3106860
2015-01-01 3762016
2016-01-01 4417702
2017-01-01 5544441
2018-01-01 5582767
2019-01-01 5566124
2020-01-01 5780392
2021-01-01 6127552
2022-01-01 6154673
2023-01-01 6786225

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