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Forced displacement flow dataset
Description
UNHCR has published a new dataset recording the number of people forced to flee during each of the years since 1962. This dataset presents the forced displacement flows.
Usage
flows
Format
A tibble.
- year
The year (e.g. 2020).
- coo_name
Country of origin name.
- coo
Country of origin UNHCR code.
- coo_iso
Country of origin ISO code.
- coa_name
Country of asylum name.
- coa
Country of asylum UNHCR code.
- coa_iso
Country of asylum ISO code.
- refugees
Refugee Arrivals: includes prima facie (group recognition) refugees and those who have received temporary protection. The first available data for this group is for 1962. People in refugee-like situations are also included from 2007.
- asylum_seekers
New Asylum Applications: are new asylum applications registered during each year. Repeat and appeal applications have been excluded. The first year that published data for this population group became available is 1970 and only for a limited number of high-income countries, with data from more countries available from 2000.
- returned_refugees
Refugees who have returned home within the previous year.
- oip
Other people in need of international protection: includes just the new arrivals of this population group, first reported in 2018.
Details
See the notes on the curation process in the Data Insights for more details.
Source
Examples
flows