Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Lower Middle Income Countries

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Lower Middle Income Countries
Series ID SMPOPREFGLMC
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 7495513
1991-01-01 7681767
1992-01-01 6803326
1993-01-01 7222163
1994-01-01 7010722
1995-01-01 7067766
1996-01-01 6767178
1997-01-01 6554043
1998-01-01 6576506
1999-01-01 6749870
2000-01-01 7780161
2001-01-01 7876291
2002-01-01 7010778
2003-01-01 6984670
2004-01-01 7035315
2005-01-01 6773976
2006-01-01 7128873
2007-01-01 8219896
2008-01-01 7994566
2009-01-01 8067232
2010-01-01 8142763
2011-01-01 8226392
2012-01-01 8168035
2013-01-01 9355369
2014-01-01 9805526
2015-01-01 10044510
2016-01-01 9915586
2017-01-01 10727005
2018-01-01 10832602
2019-01-01 10849644
2020-01-01 11000414
2021-01-01 11287274
2022-01-01 11686994
2023-01-01 11985932

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