Federal Reserve Economic Data

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

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Latin America and Caribbean
Series ID SMPOPREFGLCN
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 1188273
1991-01-01 890961
1992-01-01 881523
1993-01-01 125246
1994-01-01 109013
1995-01-01 93843
1996-01-01 88392
1997-01-01 83146
1998-01-01 65508
1999-01-01 61468
2000-01-01 37803
2001-01-01 37062
2002-01-01 40818
2003-01-01 38244
2004-01-01 36091
2005-01-01 37623
2006-01-01 40433
2007-01-01 530374
2008-01-01 350095
2009-01-01 367260
2010-01-01 373655
2011-01-01 377581
2012-01-01 380522
2013-01-01 381782
2014-01-01 352424
2015-01-01 337472
2016-01-01 322179
2017-01-01 252093
2018-01-01 215691
2019-01-01 257918
2020-01-01 308741
2021-01-01 269213
2022-01-01 296962
2023-01-01 507916

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