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Refugee population by country or territory of asylum   1960 - 2020

Description 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.
Unit of measure Absolute number
  United States
1960 500,000
1961 500,000
1962 500,000
1963 500,000
1964 500,000
1965 510,000
1966 500,000
1967 480,000
1968 498,000
1969 500,000
1970 500,000
1971 530,000
1972 530,000
1973 530,000
1974 530,000
1975 530,000
1976 500,000
1977 684,700
1978 734,000
1979 734,000
1980 403,684
1981 537,375
1982 620,257
1983 655,532
1984 626,909
1985 492,806
1986 398,633
1987 365,726
1988 377,769
1989 411,496
1990 464,887
1991 513,885
1992 579,938
1993 623,056
1994 631,046
1995 623,279
1996 607,005
1997 563,813
1998 533,951
1999 521,134
2000 508,209
2001 515,851
2002 485,173
2003 452,536
2004 420,788
2005 379,330
2006 843,449
2007 281,169
2008 279,488
2009 275,398
2010 264,510
2011 264,752
2012 262,006
2013 263,653
2014 267,214
2015 273,198
2016 272,963
2017 287,135
2018 313,242
2019 341,715
2020 340,881

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