Refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA by country or territory of asylum by country
Refugees under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Palestine Refugees, are persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948...
What the numbers show
Refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA by country or territory of asylum is currently reported for 4 countries. The highest value is 2.48 million in Palestine; the lowest is 228,274 in Lebanon.
The median across all reporting countries is 1.38 million, and the mean is 1.37 million.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 11.
Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine (up 18.1%), and the largest decrease in Lebanon (down 50.2%).
Refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA by country or territory of asy: full country ranking
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Low & middle income 5.47 million
- World 5.47 million
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 5.47 million
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 5.47 million
- Arab World 5.47 million
- Early-demographic dividend 5.24 million
- Middle income 5.11 million
- IDA & IBRD total 2.98 million
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 2.98 million
- Lower middle income 2.71 million
- IBRD only 2.63 million
- Upper middle income 2.40 million
About this data
Refugees under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Palestine Refugees, are persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict. Palestine Refugees, and descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children, are eligible to register for UNRWA services. UNRWA accepts new applications from persons who wish to be registered as Palestine Refugees. Once they are registered with UNRWA, persons in this category are referred to as Registered Refugees. Refugees under the mandate of the UNRWA are not typically included in the statistics on refugees (and people in a refugee-like situation) under the mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).