Federal Reserve Economic Data

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

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Canada
Series ID SMPOPREFGCAN
Source World Bank
Release World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1960-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-07-02 2:09 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
1960-01-01 48629
1961-01-01 44492
1962-01-01 12282
1963-01-01 10946
1964-01-01 10178
1965-01-01 9980
1966-01-01 10225
1967-01-01 9991
1968-01-01 17950
1969-01-01 19275
1970-01-01 18518
1971-01-01 17196
1972-01-01 20933
1973-01-01 13358
1974-01-01 11410
1975-01-01 16349
1976-01-01 27387
1977-01-01 29537
1978-01-01 31295
1979-01-01 57913
1980-01-01 92679
1981-01-01 96415
1982-01-01 107591
1983-01-01 120947
1984-01-01 112966
1985-01-01 92194
1986-01-01 98743
1987-01-01 104843
1988-01-01 116434
1989-01-01 135752
1990-01-01 154761
1991-01-01 170916
1992-01-01 183723
1993-01-01 183241
1994-01-01 186555
1995-01-01 152110
1996-01-01 138427
1997-01-01 125176
1998-01-01 119355
1999-01-01 123303
2000-01-01 126991
2001-01-01 129227
2002-01-01 129935
2003-01-01 133088
2004-01-01 141402
2005-01-01 147164
2006-01-01 151832
2007-01-01 175728
2008-01-01 173642
2009-01-01 169424
2010-01-01 165544
2011-01-01 164879
2012-01-01 163751
2013-01-01 160347
2014-01-01 149164
2015-01-01 135890
2016-01-01 97322
2017-01-01 104768
2018-01-01 114101
2019-01-01 101757
2020-01-01 109214
2021-01-01 130125
2022-01-01 140621
2023-01-01 169448

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