Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Developing Countries in Latin America and Caribbean

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Developing Countries in Latin America and Caribbean
Series ID SMPOPREFGLAC
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 1185028
1991-01-01 888174
1992-01-01 877920
1993-01-01 121630
1994-01-01 105537
1995-01-01 90955
1996-01-01 85453
1997-01-01 81776
1998-01-01 63625
1999-01-01 59460
2000-01-01 35828
2001-01-01 35054
2002-01-01 38680
2003-01-01 36190
2004-01-01 33597
2005-01-01 34576
2006-01-01 36630
2007-01-01 311073
2008-01-01 130253
2009-01-01 147291
2010-01-01 153190
2011-01-01 156425
2012-01-01 157537
2013-01-01 157809
2014-01-01 159410
2015-01-01 144086
2016-01-01 130560
2017-01-01 124257
2018-01-01 142531
2019-01-01 182666
2020-01-01 232042
2021-01-01 220716
2022-01-01 258297
2023-01-01 468916

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