Title:               Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Middle Income Countries
Series ID:           SMPOPREFGMIC
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   13207404
1991-01-01   13541533
1992-01-01   13544736
1993-01-01   11942587
1994-01-01   11237212
1995-01-01   11251319
1996-01-01   10969448
1997-01-01   10700256
1998-01-01   10605463
1999-01-01   10828577
2000-01-01   11517923
2001-01-01   11458505
2002-01-01    9918171
2003-01-01    9328750
2004-01-01    9434155
2005-01-01    8852891
2006-01-01    9050167
2007-01-01   10297477
2008-01-01    9927184
2009-01-01   10121011
2010-01-01   10195356
2011-01-01   10080344
2012-01-01   10308999
2013-01-01   12058105
2014-01-01   13908747
2015-01-01   15129815
2016-01-01   15196367
2017-01-01   16536487
2018-01-01   16833407
2019-01-01   16712768
2020-01-01   16867073
2021-01-01   17176168
2022-01-01   21340160