annex table 2 Notes The data are generally provided by Governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. A dash ("-") indicates that the value is zero, not available or not applicable. All data are provisional and subject to change. 1 Country or territory of origin. 2 Persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted 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 persons 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 Persons whose application for asylum or refugee status is pending at any stage in the asylum procedure. 5 Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during 2018. Source: country of origin and asylum. 6 Persons who are displaced within their country and to whom UNHCR extends protection and/or assistance. It also includes people in IDP-like situations. This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are inside their country of nationality or habitual residence and who face protection risks similar to those of IDPs but who, for practical or other reasons, could not be reported as such. 7 IDPs of concern to UNHCR who have returned to their place of origin during 2018. 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. See Annex Table 7 at http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/18-WRD-table-7.xls for detailed notes. 9 11 UNHCR has recommended on 4 April 2014 to start the process of cessation of refugee status for refugees from Croatia displaced during the 1991-95 conflict. The Office recommended that cessation enters into effect latest by the end of 2017. 12 UNHCR's assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information. 13 Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic was a Government estimate. UNHCR has registered 15,700 Iraqis at the end of 2018. The refugee population in Jordan includes 34,600 Iraqis registered with UNHCR. The Government of Jordan estimated the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This includes refugees and other categories of Iraqis. 14 IDP figure in Myanmar includes 120,000 persons in an IDP-like situation. 15 Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only. 16 An unknown number of refugees and asylum-seekers from South Sudan may be included under Sudan (in absence of separate statistics for both countries). 17 Figures for refugees and asylum-seekers may include citizens of South Sudan (in absence of separate statistics for both countries). 18 IDP figure in Ukraine includes 700,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation. 19 A limited number of countries record refugee and asylum statistics by country of birth rather than country of origin. This affects the number of refugees reported as originating from the United States of America. 20 The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 21 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. Source: UNHCR/Governments. Refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of the other groups but to whom UNHCR may extend its protection and/or assistance services. These activities might be based on humanitarian or other special grounds. 10 Venezuelans displaced abroad refers to persons who have left Venezuela as a result of the deteriorating circumstances inside the country, but who have not applied for asylum in the country in which they are present. As indicated in the Guidance Note on International Protection Considerations for Venezuelans (May 2019), UNHCR considers that the majority of Venezuelan nationals or stateless persons who were habitually resident in Venezuela, are in need of international protection under the criteria contained in the Cartagena Declaration on the basis of threats to their lives, security or freedom resulting from events that are seriously disturbing public order in Venezuela. In line with the Secretary General’s Guidance, UNHCR and IOM have been coordinating closely to respond to the outflow of Venezuelans. By the end of 2018, the total population of concern to UNHCR stood at 74.8 million people. This included people who have been forcibly displaced (refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people); those who have found a durable solution (returnees) within the previous year; stateless individuals, most of whom have never been forcibly displaced; and other groups of concern to whom UNHCR has extended its protection or provided assistance on a humanitarian basis. Therefore, this categorization is different from the 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide – a figure that includes refugees and other displaced people not covered by UNHCR’s mandate and excludes other categories such as returnees and non-displaced stateless people. A detailed breakdown of the population of concern to UNHCR by category and country is provided in Annex Table 1. ■ Annex tables 3 through 29 can be downloaded from the UNHCR website at: → http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/18-WRD-tab_v3_external.zip Annex table 7: → http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/18-WRD-table-7.xls