ANNEX TABLE 1 REFUGEES Country/territory of asylum 1 Refugees 2 People in refugeelike situations3 Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases)4 Returned refugees5 IDPs of concern to UNHCR6 60,906 55,503 4,945,912 Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate8 Others of concern to UNHCR9 492,052 955,514 154,520 - 7,869,139 Returned IDPs7 Venezuelans displaced abroad10 Total population of concern UNHCR Bureaus - West and Central Africa - East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes 1,204,732 - 1204,732 4,388,716 - 4,388,716 161,416 132,162 7,966,481 1,602,754 19,474 2,349,855 - 16,620,858 - Southern Africa 755,296 - 755,296 307,248 24,011 5,599,199 2,139,661 - 36,322 - 8,861,737 Total Africa 6,348,744 - 6,348,744 529,570 211,676 18,511,592 4,234,467 974,988 2,540,697 - 33,351,734 Americas 592,892 108,760 701,652 1,902,133 31 8,295,002 - 4,052 1,165,309 3,582,203 15,650,382 Asia and the Pacific 4,133,666 48,659 4,182,325 212,396 10,361 3,170,095 127,128 2,284,461 632,492 - 9,505,943 Europe Middle East and North Africa 6,543,455 26,967 6,570,422 1,242,168 58 1,983,659 165 527,959 1,761,024 - 12,085,455 2,602,424 40,332 2,642,756 263,586 95,081 11,543,014 982,033 370,519 41,166 - 15,938,155 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 6,777,799 26,000 6,803,799 644,462 211,676 18,867,264 4,238,836 974,992 2,540,714 - 34,281,743 Asia 9,814,777 77,564 9,892,341 631,166 105,442 15,295,979 1,104,792 2,660,082 678,233 - 29,254,720 Europe 2,945,719 12,394 2,958,113 893,589 58 1,045,117 165 522,853 1,756,431 - 7,176,326 UN major regions Africa Latin America North America and the Caribbean 146,741 108,760 255,501 937,289 31 8,295,002 - 262 1,165,107 3,485,709 14,138,901 446,151 - 446,151 964,844 - - - 3,790 202 96,494 1,511,481 Oceania 89,994 - 89,994 78,503 - - - - 1 - 168,498 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 Total NOTES 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 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. 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. The data are generally provided by governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. 1 Country or territory of asylum or residence. 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. 76 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 statelessness figure refers to a census from 2011 and has been adjusted to reflect the number of persons with undetermined nationality who had their nationality confirmed in 2011-2019. 12 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. 13 The methodology for estimating the number of refugees in Australia is under review and subject to adjustment in future reports. The asylum-seeker figure is based on the number of applications lodged for protection visas. UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019