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Table Data - Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for OECD Members

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Title Refugee Population by Country or Territory of Asylum for OECD Members
Series ID SMPOPREFGOED
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 1:44 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 2801359
1991-01-01 2726900
1992-01-01 3321397
1993-01-01 3187145
1994-01-01 3240476
1995-01-01 3113292
1996-01-01 3132900
1997-01-01 2854581
1998-01-01 2641115
1999-01-01 2663061
2000-01-01 2522849
2001-01-01 2568903
2002-01-01 2634075
2003-01-01 2545731
2004-01-01 2412673
2005-01-01 2187939
2006-01-01 2569365
2007-01-01 1944811
2008-01-01 1978522
2009-01-01 2005416
2010-01-01 1981526
2011-01-01 1957245
2012-01-01 2216584
2013-01-01 2200241
2014-01-01 3290290
2015-01-01 4457969
2016-01-01 5324199
2017-01-01 6368086
2018-01-01 6820931
2019-01-01 6984345
2020-01-01 7149538
2021-01-01 7489059
2022-01-01 11210083

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