Federal Reserve Economic Data

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

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Australia
Series ID SMPOPREFGAUS
Source World Bank
Release World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1965-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-07-02 2:10 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
1965-01-01 40000
1966-01-01 40000
1967-01-01 44000
1968-01-01 43000
1969-01-01 42000
1970-01-01 42000
1971-01-01 .
1972-01-01 .
1973-01-01 .
1974-01-01 .
1975-01-01 .
1976-01-01 .
1977-01-01 .
1978-01-01 304000
1979-01-01 304000
1980-01-01 304000
1981-01-01 317000
1982-01-01 317000
1983-01-01 317000
1984-01-01 89000
1985-01-01 89000
1986-01-01 85900
1987-01-01 87600
1988-01-01 90970
1989-01-01 97915
1990-01-01 97915
1991-01-01 53117
1992-01-01 52604
1993-01-01 53505
1994-01-01 57575
1995-01-01 62145
1996-01-01 67298
1997-01-01 66056
1998-01-01 69714
1999-01-01 64879
2000-01-01 60219
2001-01-01 57885
2002-01-01 59422
2003-01-01 56242
2004-01-01 63478
2005-01-01 64955
2006-01-01 68942
2007-01-01 22161
2008-01-01 20915
2009-01-01 22543
2010-01-01 21790
2011-01-01 23423
2012-01-01 30061
2013-01-01 34485
2014-01-01 35565
2015-01-01 36917
2016-01-01 42187
2017-01-01 48480
2018-01-01 56934
2019-01-01 58529
2020-01-01 57411
2021-01-01 55606
2022-01-01 54430
2023-01-01 34502

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