UNHCR Protection Monitoring for Venezuelan Displacement in Argentina, 2020

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency conducted protection monitoring in 2020 to assess the situation of persons displaced from Venezuela to Argentina. The monitoring aims to understand protection risks and inform responses, as the outflow from Venezuela increased from about 700,000 in 2015 to over 4 million by mid-2019. The dataset was last updated on the HDX platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing protection risks faced by displaced populations based on the monitoring activity described.
• Analyzing regional displacement trends from Venezuela based on the described outflow statistics.
• Informing humanitarian program design based on the action-oriented nature of the monitoring data.

Strengths

• Produced by UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency, a primary source for displacement data.
• Focuses on a specific geographic context (Argentina) and time period (2020).
• Addresses a major displacement crisis, with outflows from Venezuela reaching over 4 million people by mid-2019.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the monitoring scope and HDX platform.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Protection monitoring, a core UNHCR activity for understanding the protection situation of forcibly displaced persons.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:44:54.372426; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Argentina, with context on displacement from Venezuela to Latin America and the Caribbean.