ANNEX TABLE 2 REFUGEES Origin1 Refugees 2 Total refugees and people in People in refugee-like refugee-like situations3 situations Asylumseekers (pending cases)4 Persons under UNHCR’s Others of Venezuelans statelessness concern to displaced mandate8 UNHCR9 abroad10 Returned refugees5 IDPs of concern to UNHCR6 Returned IDPs7 4,945,912 492,052 Total population of concern UNHCR Bureaus - West and Central Africa - East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes 1,304,489 - 1,304,489 263,567 55,503 5,108,056 14,619 5,122,675 357,588 132,162 7,966,481 - Southern Africa 842,954 210 843,164 141,712 24,011 5,599,199 Total Africa 7,255,499 14,829 7,270,328 762,867 211,676 18,511,592 Americas - 156,116 - 7,217,639 1,602,754 - 2,139,661 - 2,351,928 - 17,533,588 31,544 - 4,234,467 8,779,291 - 2,539,588 - 33,530,518 331,781 108,767 440,548 1,595,392 31 8,295,002 - - 1,048,817 3,582,203 14,961,993 Asia and the Pacific 4,769,641 56,019 4,825,660 727,089 10,361 3,170,095 127,128 - 510,346 - 9,370,560 Europe Middle East and North Africa 340,359 725 341,084 212,306 58 1,983,659 ,165 - 1,733,006 - 4,270,278 7,271,679 44,378 7,316,057 534,231 95,081 11,543,014 982,033 - 49,289 - 20,519,705 Various/Stateless 252,222 - 252,222 317,968 - - - 4,161,979 259,642 - 3,878,615 Total 20,221,181 224,718 20,445,899 4,149,853 317,207 43,503,362 5,343,793 4,161,979 6,140,688 3,582,203 86,531,669 Africa 7438,651 40,835 7,479,486 813,283 211,676 18,867,264 4,238,836 - 2,540,365 - 34,150,910 Asia 11,969,760 74,961 12,044,721 1,293,145 105,442 15,295,979 1,104,792 - 558,920 - 30,402,880 UN major regions Europe 227,550 152 227,702 126,248 58 1,045,117 165 - 1,732,943 - 3,132,233 Latin America North America and the Caribbean 298,022 108,760 406,782 1,518,577 31 8,295,002 - - 1,048,599 3,582,203 14,851,194 33,759 7 33,766 76,815 - - - - 218 - 110,799 1,217 3 1,220 3,817 - - - - 1 - 5,038 Various/Stateless 252,222 - 252,222 317,968 - - - 4,161,979 259,642 - 3,878,615 Total 20,221,181 224,718 20,445,899 4,149,853 317,207 43,503,362 5,343,793 4,161,979 6,140,688 3,582,203 86,531,669 Oceania NOTES follows a methodology that reports on one legal status for each person of concern only. However, due to the extraordinary size of the displaced stateless population from Myanmar, UNHCR considers it important to reflect the dual status that this population group possesses, pending a review of UNHCR reporting on statelessness. See Annex Table 5 at https://www.unhcr.org/ statistics/2019GTannextableSTA.xlsx for detailed notes. The data are generally provided by governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. 1 Country or territory of origin. 2 Refugees include individuals recognized under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, the refugee definition contained in the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees as incorporated into national laws, those recognized in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, individuals granted complementary forms of protection, and those enjoying temporary protection. In the absence of Government figures, UNHCR has estimated the refugee population in many industrialized countries based on 10 years of individual asylum-seeker recognition. 3 This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of people who are outside their country or territory of origin and who face protection risks similar to those of refugees, but for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained. 4 Asylum-seekers (with pending cases) are individuals who have sought international protection and whose claims for refugee status have not yet been determined. Those covered in this table refer to claimants whose individual applications were pending at the end of 2019, irrespective of when those claims may have been lodged. 5 Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during 2019. Source: country of origin and asylum. 6 IDPs are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. For the purposes of UNHCR’s statistics, this population includes only conflict-generated IDPs to whom the Office extends protection and/or assistance. 7 IDPs of concern to UNHCR who have returned to their place of origin during 2019. 8 Refers to persons who are not considered as nationals by any State under the operation of its law. This category refers to persons who fall under the agency’s statelessness mandate because they are stateless according to this international definition, but data from some countries may also include persons with undetermined nationality. The figure reported includes stateless persons who are also refugees or asylum-seekers from Myanmar, IDPs in Myanmar, or others of concern to UNHCR. UNHCR’s statistical reporting generally 82 9 Refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of these groups above but to whom UNHCR has extended its protection and/or assistance services, based on humanitarian or other special grounds. 10 Venezuelans displaced abroad refers to persons of Venezuelan origin who are likely to be in need of international protection under the criteria contained in the Cartagena Declaration, but who have not applied for asylum in the country in which they are present. Regardless of status, Venezuelans displaced abroad require protection against forced returns, and access to basic services. UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration work together with this population by leading the Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Platform, which is aimed at strengthening the protection dimensions and consistent responses across the region in line with human rights standards. 11 The figure of Others of concern has been provided by the Government of Colombia. 12 The figure of IDP returns was released by the “Commissions de mouvements de population” and covers the period from April 2018 to September 2019. 13 The refugee population in Jordan includes 34,300 Iraqis registered with UNHCR. The Government of Jordan estimated the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This includes refugees and other categories of Iraqis. 14 Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only. 15 The IDP figure has been aligned to the inter-agency methodology as defined in the 2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview. Figure of others of concern relates to persons who have specific protection needs and live in non-government-controlled areas or within 20 km of the contact line in government-controlled areas. 16 A limited number of countries record refugee and asylum statistics by country of birth rather than country of origin. This affects the number of refugees reported as originating from the United States of America. 17 The 303,100 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 18 According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps. Statistical data relating to refugees are entirely for humanitarian purposes. The total number of persons in need of humanitarian assistance services is estimated to be far higher than this figure. UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019