Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Small States

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Small States
Series ID SMPOPREFGSST
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 2024-07-09 6:26 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 152233
1991-01-01 175889
1992-01-01 104591
1993-01-01 92722
1994-01-01 43602
1995-01-01 39449
1996-01-01 36877
1997-01-01 34065
1998-01-01 28591
1999-01-01 27548
2000-01-01 25786
2001-01-01 25485
2002-01-01 24088
2003-01-01 30045
2004-01-01 21786
2005-01-01 14768
2006-01-01 21010
2007-01-01 20571
2008-01-01 40914
2009-01-01 46178
2010-01-01 42203
2011-01-01 44820
2012-01-01 43159
2013-01-01 43231
2014-01-01 39623
2015-01-01 37122
2016-01-01 37175
2017-01-01 38982
2018-01-01 41704
2019-01-01 44816
2020-01-01 48656
2021-01-01 53494
2022-01-01 140927
2023-01-01 191059

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