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Refugee population by country or territory of origin

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1991 to 2016 of Middle East & North Africa. No data until 1990. Number of actual observations by date: 26.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 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 at: www.unhcr.org/statistics/populationdatabase.

Categories, topics:

Health, Social Development

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

1.654 mln

Minimum:

761.647K

jan 1, 2001

Maximum:

4.796 mln

jan 1, 2016

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1991

1.228 mln

+1.228 mln

0.0%

jan 1, 1992

1.53 mln

+302.127K

24.6%

jan 1, 1993

1.584 mln

+53.793K

3.52%

jan 1, 1994

985.856K

-598.293K

-37.77%

jan 1, 1995

1.019 mln

+33.5K

3.4%

jan 1, 1996

950.07K

-69.286K

-6.8%

jan 1, 1997

945.3K

-4.77K

-0.5%

jan 1, 1998

916.343K

-28.957K

-3.06%

jan 1, 1999

878.737K

-37.606K

-4.1%

jan 1, 2000

864.304K

-14.433K

-1.64%

jan 1, 2001

761.647K

-102.657K

-11.88%

jan 1, 2002

1.006 mln

+244.25K

32.07%

jan 1, 2003

1.064 mln

+57.668K

5.73%

jan 1, 2004

915.116K

-148.449K

-13.96%

jan 1, 2005

845.3K

-69.816K

-7.63%

jan 1, 2006

776.961K

-68.339K

-8.08%

jan 1, 2007

1.943 mln

+1.166 mln

150.11%

jan 1, 2008

2.779 mln

+835.952K

43.02%

jan 1, 2009

2.372 mln

-406.75K

-14.64%

jan 1, 2010

2.017 mln

-354.945K

-14.96%

jan 1, 2011

1.909 mln

-108.557K

-5.38%

jan 1, 2012

1.662 mln

-247.222K

-12.95%

jan 1, 2013

1.697 mln

+34.81K

2.09%

jan 1, 2014

3.075 mln

+1.379 mln

81.26%

jan 1, 2015

4.476 mln

+1.401 mln

45.56%