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Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Europe and Central Asia

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Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Europe and Central Asia
Series ID SMPOPREFGECS
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 2022-01-01
Last Updated 2023-07-04 1:43 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 1439904
1991-01-01 1488708
1992-01-01 3509249
1993-01-01 3654105
1994-01-01 3530705
1995-01-01 3610234
1996-01-01 3778644
1997-01-01 3446233
1998-01-01 3162779
1999-01-01 3174640
2000-01-01 2765224
2001-01-01 2685766
2002-01-01 2681619
2003-01-01 2536283
2004-01-01 2404799
2005-01-01 2040015
2006-01-01 1738809
2007-01-01 1589507
2008-01-01 1635678
2009-01-01 1649261
2010-01-01 1610590
2011-01-01 1560499
2012-01-01 1796981
2013-01-01 1775508
2014-01-01 3109594
2015-01-01 4382501
2016-01-01 5195631
2017-01-01 6109370
2018-01-01 6469144
2019-01-01 6565787
2020-01-01 6791014
2021-01-01 7018817
2022-01-01 12405656

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