� In 2014 the Office of the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) launched the #IBelong
Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024. At that
�me a target was set to increase the number of
States with quan�ta�ve es�mates of the size of
their stateless popula�ons from 75 to 100 by the
year 2017, but UNHCR is currently only able to
report statelessness data for 79 countries and
es�mated data for a further 22.
� UNHCR. (1954). Convention Related to the
Status of Stateless Persons.
https://www.unhcr.org/protection/statelessness/
3bbb25729/convention-relating-status-stateless-p
ersons.html
� UNHCR. (2021). New evidence about the
socioeconomic impacts of statelessness emerges
from a study of the Shona community in Kenya.
https://www.unhcr.org/blogs/socioeconomic-imp
acts-of-statelessness-shona-community-in-kenya/
� https://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2019/
� According to the World Bank Group’s 2018 ID4D
Global Dataset, an estimated one billion people
around the globe face challenges in proving who
We are looking forward to staying in touch
with par�cipants of the event and sharing
more informa�on with those interested in
contribu�ng to the development of the
Interna�onal Recommenda�ons on
Statelessness Sta�s�cs (IROSS).
For more informa�on, please contact the
secretariat of the Expert Group on Refugee,
IDP and Statelessness Sta�s�cs (EGRISS):
egrisstats@unhcr.org
they are. They struggle to access basic services.
https://id4d.worldbank.org/global-dataset
� https://plan-international.org/early-childhood/birth-registration
� https://data.unicef.org/resources/birth-registration-for-every-child-by-2030/
� The adoption of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations General
Assembly in September 2015 placed birth registration firmly on the international development
agenda. It included a dedicated target (16.9)
under Goal 16: provide legal identity for all,
including birth registration, by 2030. Complementing this is target 17.9, which calls for support
in building the statistical capacity needed for
strong national civil registration systems. Such
systems produce vital statistics, including those on
birth registration, which are foundational for
achieving sustained human and economic development.
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