Figure 4 | Percentage of the 99 States parties to the 1954 Statelessness Convention and their compliance in issuing MRCTDs Issuance from non-States parties to the 1954 Statelessness Convention Expanding analysis to non-States parties, nine additional countries from this group issue a machine readable travel document to stateless persons and four countries provide a manual type of travel document. Examples of these travel documents include certificates of identity, alien passports and IDs that facilitate regional travel. Approximately 62 additional countries are not providing any travel document to stateless persons with a lack of data for another 22 countries. Issuance from the ICAO Member States This totals to 53 per cent of ICAO Member States not providing machine readable travel documents to stateless persons along with a deficit of data for 14 per cent of countries. 5. MRCTD issuance by region When looking from a regional perspective, there are noticeable differences in MRCTD issuance rates that are worth examining. Compared to other regions, Europe has the highest percentage of countries in their region issuing MRCTDs for refugees and stateless persons, but there is a notable difference in issuance rates by European countries between the two CTD types (88 per cent for refugees and 51 per cent for stateless persons). The Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa have a similar issuance rate of roughly 1/3 of countries for MRCTDs for refugees. However, for stateless persons, differences in MRCTD issuance emerge with the Americas reaching 20 per cent, while in Sub-Saharan Africa the total equals 0 per cent. The MRCTD issuance rates are lower in the Asia and Pacific region and in the Middle East and Northern Africa region corresponding to the low number of States which are parties to both Conventions (1951 and 1954). Analyzing the data in this manner provides a clearer understanding that access to MRCTDs can vary significantly among regions and highlights the gaps between MRCTD issuance for refugees versus stateless persons. 5