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Title:               Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Low and Middle Income Countries
Series ID:           SMPOPREFGLMY
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 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
1990-01-01   17696746
1991-01-01   17123841
1992-01-01   17244768
1993-01-01   15803794
1994-01-01   15464804
1995-01-01   14884282
1996-01-01   13474227
1997-01-01   12604838
1998-01-01   12423447
1999-01-01   12708986
2000-01-01   13403884
2001-01-01   13227201
2002-01-01   11752966
2003-01-01   10951426
2004-01-01   11156953
2005-01-01   10586009
2006-01-01   11520193
2007-01-01   13528982
2008-01-01   12706157
2009-01-01   12956788
2010-01-01   13057282
2011-01-01   13046778
2012-01-01   13251775
2013-01-01   14919510
2014-01-01   17645623
2015-01-01   19229934
2016-01-01   19867534
2017-01-01   22357692
2018-01-01   22687422
2019-01-01   22571804
2020-01-01   22817215
2021-01-01   23394332
2022-01-01   27562512