Chapter 2 Comparing host country situations Responsibility-sharing among States in the provision of protection and solutions for refugees can take many forms, including providing funds for relevant programmes in other, less prosperous, host countries. When it comes to hosting refugees, however, the burden is not equally shared. Comparing the number of people displaced across borders to national income levels according to World Bank classification, 34 it is clear that in the last decade, high-income countries never hosted more than 19 per cent of this population. In 2019, they hosted 17 per cent. Low-income countries, on the other hand, consistently hosted around 20 per cent per year. In 2010, upper-middle income countries – including Turkey, Colombia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Lebanon and Jordan – hosted 16 per cent of refugees. By the end of 2019, they hosted 44 per cent of refugees and Venezuelans displaced abroad. The share hosted by lower middle-income countries fell during the same period. Comparing the size of a refugee population with that of a host country can help measure the impact of hosting that population. Figure 12 helps to shed light on some of the major displacement situations of our time. Five of the 10 countries in the figure are directly affected by the Venezuela crisis and three by the Syria crisis. Taking into account Venezuelans displaced abroad, the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao rank 1st and 3rd on the list, with 156 and 99 displaced persons per 1,000 inhabitants, respectively. 35 Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey rank 2nd, 4th and 5th when comparing the number of refugees they host in relation to their national population size. 36 The only countries appearing in the top-10 list per 1,000 inhabitants yet not affected by the Syria or Venezuela crisis are Uganda and Chad. Figure 12 | People displaced across borders per 1,000 host country inhabitants | end-2019 Aruba 156 Lebanon 134 Curaçao 99 Jordan 69 Turkey 43 35 Colombia Uganda 31 Guyana 28 Panama 28 Chad 28 *Limited to countries hosting at least 1,000 people. Excludes Palestine refugees under UNRWA's mandate. 34 Income groupings are from the World Bank: http://databank. worldbank.org/data/download/site-content/OGHIST.xls UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019 35 National population data are from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “World population prospects: The 2019 revision”, New York, 2019. See: https://population.un.org/wpp/ 36 Figures for Lebanon and Jordan exclude Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate. Lebanon hosted 476,000 and Jordan almost 2.3 million registered Palestine refugees at the end of 2019. 25