Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Developing Countries in East Asia and Pacific

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Developing Countries in East Asia and Pacific
Series ID SMPOPREFGEAP
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 2024-07-02 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
1990-01-01 453346
1991-01-01 429547
1992-01-01 396347
1993-01-01 424438
1994-01-01 407418
1995-01-01 446970
1996-01-01 450712
1997-01-01 490286
1998-01-01 505064
1999-01-01 628281
2000-01-01 594174
2001-01-01 551095
2002-01-01 510281
2003-01-01 449091
2004-01-01 456048
2005-01-01 464427
2006-01-01 484312
2007-01-01 472304
2008-01-01 463547
2009-01-01 485492
2010-01-01 491982
2011-01-01 488493
2012-01-01 487095
2013-01-01 547854
2014-01-01 544700
2015-01-01 519267
2016-01-01 533774
2017-01-01 550546
2018-01-01 566746
2019-01-01 550714
2020-01-01 551104
2021-01-01 558696
2022-01-01 250550
2023-01-01 243457

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