Title:               Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Developing Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Series ID:           SMPOPREFGSSA
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 2021-01-01
Last Updated:        2022-07-05 2:33 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   5641621
1991-01-01   5008976
1992-01-01   5234267
1993-01-01   6155548
1994-01-01   6490133
1995-01-01   5743427
1996-01-01   4131852
1997-01-01   3279585
1998-01-01   3138281
1999-01-01   3316368
2000-01-01   3413266
2001-01-01   3070127
2002-01-01   3058261
2003-01-01   2836813
2004-01-01   2730719
2005-01-01   2561508
2006-01-01   2412643
2007-01-01   2294915
2008-01-01   2124039
2009-01-01   2089412
2010-01-01   2195416
2011-01-01   2699443
2012-01-01   2835685
2013-01-01   3005564
2014-01-01   3745809
2015-01-01   4471283
2016-01-01   5191332
2017-01-01   6327923
2018-01-01   6400172
2019-01-01   6402984
2020-01-01   6657668
2021-01-01   7067777