Raw Data

Data typeDescriptionSource
UNHCR Demographics DataThe number of people in refugee-relation situations based on population type and country of origin between 2010 and 2019(UNHCR, 2023)1
UNHCR Asylum Decisions DataAsylum application decisions based on country of origin between 2010 and 2019(UNHCR, 2023)1
UNHCR Key locationsUNHCR Key locations of border crossings, loction of PoCs, and UNHCR presence(UNHCR, ArcGIS, 2023)2
Countries and capital citiesCountries and capital cities as of 2020 and their centroid longitude and latitude(Nomad, 2020)3
ILO Labour StatisticsLabour statisticss from ILO on working-age population, employment rate, labour underutilisation rate, employment sectors(ILOSTAT, 2023)4
UNHCR MicrodataMicrodata collected by UNHCR for the situation in Sudan, Myanmar, and Moldova(UNHCR,2019)5, (UNHCR,2022a)6, (UNHCR,2022b)7
Conflict and early warning databaseConflict data based on fatalities from ACLED and Early warning database from ICEWS between 2010 and 2019 (References are linked to original publications that have been updated since with the latest data)(Raleigh et al., 2010)8 (Boschee et al., 2016)9
Journey price dataSmuggling and other journey fees(IOM, MINDS/ČTK, 2017)10, (UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants, 2021)11, (UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants, 2022a)12, (UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants, 2022b)13, (UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants, 2023)14, (UNODC, 2020)15
Inflation rate for USDInflation rate for U.S. Dollar from 2010 to 2019(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023)16

Mapping of the key UNHCR locations and capital cities

Government’s Joint Mechanism for Durable Solutions, JISP, DSWG, World Bank, DFID, SDC, CRS, Plan International. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org.

  1. UNHCR (2023), ‘Data finder’, https://popstats.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/. ↩ ↩2

  2. UNHCR, ArcGIS (2023), ‘Unhcr presence and people of concern’s locations’, https://unhcr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2028db44801d43fe8eb49321eea19285. ↩

  3. Nomad, O. (2020), ‘country-capital-lat-long-population.csv’, Accessed from: https://gist.github.com/ofou/df09a6834a8421b4f376c875194915c9. ↩

  4. ILOSTAT (2023), ‘ILOSTAT Explorer’, https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer34/?lang=en&segment=indicator. ↩

  5. UNHCR (2019), ‘Progress towards durable solutions in Abu Shouk and El Salam IDP camps’, Sudanese ↩

  6. UNHCR (2022a), ‘Intention survey of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar: A regional perspective - 2021’, Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org. ↩

  7. UNHCR (2022b), ‘Protection profiling and monitoring - May-Dec 2022’, Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org. ↩

  8. Raleigh, C., rew Linke, Hegre, H. and Karlsen, J. (2010), ‘Introducing ACLED: An armed conflict location and event dataset’, Journal of Peace Research 47(5), 651–660. URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343310378914. ↩

  9. Boschee, E., Lautenschlager, J., O’Brien, S., Shellman, S., Starz, J. and Ward, M. (2015), ‘ICEWS Coded Event Data’. URL: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28075. ↩

  10. IOM, MINDS/ČTK (2017), ‘Migrant smuggling in the world: A global story’. URL: https://www.migrationdataportal.org/infographic/migrant-smuggling-world-global-story. ↩

  11. UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants (2021), ‘Migrant Smuggling to Morocco and the Western Mediterranean’. URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/02059636e2fb441f8cd074a310869d7e#n-lmUkfJ. ↩

  12. UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants (2022a), ‘Migrant Smuggling from Nigeria’. URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/edc15a9dd4cf411c8d8edd061c6c9460. ↩

  13. UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants (2022b), ‘Northwest African (Atlantic) Route’. URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/adc4bbd2969849d1b6be9792e9b7bf4f. ↩

  14. UNODC Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants (2023), ‘West Africa, North Africa and the Central Mediterranean’. URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b5bd3d4d6624d44b5ddae6aa5af1da3. ↩

  15. UNODC (2020), Global study on smuggling of migrants 2018, United Nations, New York, NY. URL: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/glosom/GLOSOM_2018_web_small.pdf. ↩

  16. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2023), ‘Consumer Price Index (CPI) Databases’. URL: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm. ↩