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Title:               Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Middle East and North Africa
Series ID:           SMPOPREFGMEA
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
                     (www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html). 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    6902898
1991-01-01    7465924
1992-01-01    7392607
1993-01-01    5928576
1994-01-01    5850466
1995-01-01    5773694
1996-01-01    5840060
1997-01-01    5843457
1998-01-01    5913162
1999-01-01    5932342
2000-01-01    6096323
2001-01-01    6464752
2002-01-01    6093028
2003-01-01    5783866
2004-01-01    5943577
2005-01-01    5935352
2006-01-01    7218663
2007-01-01    8227013
2008-01-01    7989373
2009-01-01    7834271
2010-01-01    7699894
2011-01-01    7424160
2012-01-01    7328809
2013-01-01    8455109
2014-01-01    9046603
2015-01-01    8903648
2016-01-01    8950801
2017-01-01    9075560
2018-01-01    9161278
2019-01-01    9195527
2020-01-01    8948039
2021-01-01    8962874
2022-01-01   11636486