Data collated by UNHCR, containing information about the number of forcibly displaced residing in World availing different types of solutions for refugees and IDPs such as repatriation or resettlement. Data is available since 1983.
Format
A data frame with 17651 rows and 9 variables:
Yearcharacter Year
CountryOriginCodecharacter Country of Origin Code isoA3
CountryAsylumCodecharacter Country of Asylum Code isoA3
CountryOriginNamecharacter Country of Origin Name
CountryAsylumNamecharacter Country of Asylum Name
RSTinteger Number of Resettlement arrivals: Resettled refugees are those who have who have been resettled to another country. Resettlement is used to assist refugees in countries that cannot provide them with appropriate protection and support. Resettlement is primarily facilitated by UNHCR in most countries around the world, although significant private sponsorship schemes do exist as well (e.g. in Canada).
NATinteger Number of Naturalisation: refers to those refugees that have naturalized in their country of asylum. Naturalization is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country. It is used as a proxy measure of local integration. The International Recommendations on Refugee Statistics make several recommendations on appropriate indicators for measuring and quantifying local integration in a way that is comparable and consistent across different contexts. However, the availability of such data about refugees remains very poor. Even data on naturalization is limited by the uneven availability of data and poor coverage as well as policy and legal changes over time. In particular, it can be difficult to distinguish between the naturalization of refugees and non-refugees. Therefore, the data are only indicative at best and provide an underestimate of the extent to which refugees are naturalized.
RETinteger Number of Refugee returns: are former refugees who have returned to their countries of origin, either spontaneously or in an organized fashion, but are yet to be fully integrated. Such returns would ideally take place only under conditions of safety and dignity. For the purpose of UNHCR's statistics, only refugees who returned during the calendar year are included, although in practice, operations may assist returnees for longer periods.
RDPinteger Number of IDP returns: Returned IDPs refers to those IDPs who were beneficiaries of UNHCR’s protection and assistance activities, and who returned to their areas of origin or habitual residence during the calendar year. In practice, however, operations may assist IDP returnees for longer periods.