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Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Low Income Countries

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Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Low Income Countries
Series ID SMPOPREFGLIC
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 1:41 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 4489342
1991-01-01 3582308
1992-01-01 3700032
1993-01-01 3861207
1994-01-01 4227592
1995-01-01 3632963
1996-01-01 2504779
1997-01-01 1904582
1998-01-01 1817984
1999-01-01 1880409
2000-01-01 1885961
2001-01-01 1768696
2002-01-01 1834795
2003-01-01 1622676
2004-01-01 1722798
2005-01-01 1733118
2006-01-01 2470026
2007-01-01 3231505
2008-01-01 2778973
2009-01-01 2835777
2010-01-01 2861926
2011-01-01 2966434
2012-01-01 2942776
2013-01-01 2861405
2014-01-01 3736876
2015-01-01 4100119
2016-01-01 4671167
2017-01-01 5821205
2018-01-01 5854015
2019-01-01 5859036
2020-01-01 5950142
2021-01-01 6218164
2022-01-01 6222352

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