Chapter 6 Figure 27 shows the trend in reported statelessness figures over the past decade. The global number remains between approximately 3.2 and 4.2 million stateless persons in any given year. These figures mask some notable increases and decreases between years due to countries that began or stopped reporting on statelessness each year, and because of changes in estimation and data collection methods. For instance, five countries that reported at the end of 2018 did not submit data for 2019, leaving 3,200 stateless persons unaccounted for. On the other hand, newly reporting countries in 2019 submitted data on 18,300 stateless persons that had never been reported on before. A 2019 study on statelessness in Côte d’Ivoire jointly undertaken by the Ivorian Government and UNHCR accounts for an increase of 263,400 stateless persons from 692,000 in 2018 to 955,400 in 2019. This increase reflects improved methodology used in the study compared to previous years rather than an actual increase in the number of stateless persons. Figure 27 | Reported global number of stateless persons | 2010 – 2019 4.5 4.0 3.5 (Millions) 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 - 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 In line with the objectives of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness,71 a reported 81,100 stateless people in 28 countries were able to acquire or confirm their nationality in 2019. This is the highest number of stateless persons finding a nationality solution in a single year since the start of the #IBelong campaign in 2014. Significant numbers of people had their nationality confirmed in Thailand, Tajikistan, the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Sweden, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Moldova and Malaysia. Furthermore, in 2019, Colombia granted nationality by birth to 28,500 children born in Colombia of Venezuelan parents displaced abroad. 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Many of these increases are part of multi-year initiatives to end statelessness. Figure 28 shows that 754,500 stateless persons were reported to have acquired nationality from 2010 to 2019. From 2014 to 2019, particularly large numbers of persons had their nationality confirmed in Thailand, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Sweden. Kyrgyzstan ended all known cases of statelessness in 2019, having found solutions for more than 13,000 stateless persons in the last five years. Overall, 341,000 formerly stateless persons are known to have acquired nationality since the start of the #IBelong Campaign. 71 https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/ 58 UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019