Indonesia - Refugee population by country or territory of origin

Refugee population by country or territory of origin

The value for Refugee population by country or territory of origin in Indonesia was 13,037.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34,722.00 in 2006 and a minimum value of 150.00 in 1981.

Definition: 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 origin generally refers to the nationality or country of citizenship of a claimant.

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

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Year Value
1978 1,000.00
1979 1,000.00
1980 1,000.00
1981 150.00
1982 2,200.00
1983 1,230.00
1984 11,020.00
1985 11,800.00
1986 11,340.00
1987 9,680.00
1988 9,301.00
1989 7,775.00
1990 7,168.00
1991 6,164.00
1992 6,829.00
1993 7,925.00
1994 8,727.00
1995 9,836.00
1996 11,365.00
1997 8,800.00
1998 9,054.00
1999 9,023.00
2000 9,152.00
2001 8,972.00
2002 9,907.00
2003 16,240.00
2004 27,919.00
2005 34,383.00
2006 34,722.00
2007 20,549.00
2008 19,338.00
2009 18,207.00
2010 16,882.00
2011 16,069.00
2012 15,514.00
2013 14,775.00
2014 14,393.00
2015 13,947.00
2016 13,056.00
2017 12,485.00
2018 12,148.00
2019 12,039.00
2020 13,037.00

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration