Federal Reserve Economic Data

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

Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for Middle Income Countries
Series ID SMPOPREFGMIC
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 13207404
1991-01-01 13541533
1992-01-01 13544518
1993-01-01 11942144
1994-01-01 11236158
1995-01-01 11250001
1996-01-01 10721328
1997-01-01 10462154
1998-01-01 10476647
1999-01-01 10747974
2000-01-01 11490188
2001-01-01 11437551
2002-01-01 9899563
2003-01-01 9314806
2004-01-01 9427628
2005-01-01 8846990
2006-01-01 9044275
2007-01-01 10291033
2008-01-01 9918606
2009-01-01 10110748
2010-01-01 10184913
2011-01-01 10070755
2012-01-01 10303562
2013-01-01 12050350
2014-01-01 13661989
2015-01-01 14798774
2016-01-01 14949592
2017-01-01 16391300
2018-01-01 16736119
2019-01-01 16649917
2020-01-01 16825700
2021-01-01 17142437
2022-01-01 19889236
2023-01-01 20671050

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