annex table 1
Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs), stateless
persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by country/territory of asylum | end-2018 (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.
REFUGEES
Country/
territory of asylum1
Refugees2
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey 37
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
Ukraine 38
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Rep. of Tanzania
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan 39
Vanuatu
Venezuela
(Bolivarian Republic of)
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe 40
Total
Total
refugees
People in and people Asylumrefugee- in refugee- seekers
(pending
like
like
cases) 4
situations3 situations
Returned
refugees 5
IDPs of
concern
to
UNHCR,
incl.
people in
IDP-like
situations6
Returned
IDPs7
Persons
under
UNHCR’s
statelessness
mandate 8
Others of
concern
to
UNHCR9
Venezuelans
displaced
abroad10
Total
population of
concern
785
1,066
3,681,685
22
4
1,165,653
2,620
1,164
126,720
278,322
313,241
391
14
-
-
785
1,066
3,681,685
22
4
1,165,653
2,620
1,164
126,720
278,322
313,241
391
14
-
9,948
256
311,719
25,269
6,408
6,506
45,244
39,659
718,994
6,425
1
1
1
6
4
-
1,500,000
-
-
117
4,714
35,650
125
79,942
-
17
8
1
180,000
112
19,024
-
31,843
11,605
-
42,593
1,330
3,993,522
4,737
4
1,370,923
1,544,684
7,782
172,089
337,005
1,032,235
18,421
79,960
1
8,463
58,826
67,289
142
3
-
-
-
-
-
67,434
264,369
49,879
7,797
243,021 20,360,562
8,814
3,306
10,210
3,503,284
2
21
593,814
2,144,718
41,425,147
133,600
2,312,926
34,110
3,851,983
14
22,842
863
1,182,910
2,592,948
34,110
2,551,517
76,027
18,891
74,791,939
90,425
-
8,016,258
264,369
49,879
7,797
20,117,541
UNHCR-Bureaux
- Central AfricaGreat Lakes
- East and Horn of Africa
- Southern Africa
- Western Africa
Total Africa
Asia and Pacific
Middle East and North
Africa
Europe
Americas
Total
1,445,672
3,743
1,449,415
69,302
5,996,236
373,899
974
36,007
4,348,754
210,956
326,287
6,331,669
4,160,040
3,743
54,565
4,348,754
210,956
326,287
6,335,412
4,214,605
128,377
274,827
11,718
484,224
176,332
232,169
9,171,461
8,972
9,520 2,491,387
341,086 17,659,084
17,761 2,686,705
8,845
200,882
583,626
606,864
18,500
692,115
711,589
2,229,401
231,310
24,043
27,248
318,608
570,573
2,649,792
42,917
2,692,709
283,845
211,013 10,301,960
1,122,239
370,761
12,987
33,020 6,474,562
108,776
643,274
243,021 20,360,562
1,247,229
1,311,654
3,503,284
2,715,426
8,061,972
41,425,147
197
2,312,926
533,340
6,892
3,851,983
71,652
209,090
1,182,910
- 11,042,460
2,592,948 12,849,730
2,592,948 74,791,939
341,086 17,829,574
228,775 13,720,978
53
1,812,623
627,307
1,685,422
197
711,593
2,605,142
528,224
318,616
589,552
65,652
- 27,215,648
- 28,503,516
6,091,713
209,090
6,441,542
534,498
20,117,541
54
23,900
593,814
- 14,130,571
527,643
3,759,157
- 26,433,629
- 9,470,606
-
14,995,514
UN major regions
Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
and the Caribbean
Northern America
Oceania
Total
6,745,759
10,029,440
2,742,933
29,743
82,083
17,838
6,775,502
10,111,523
2,760,771
611,970
593,759
924,193
107,148
108,776
215,924
513,854
23,900
8,061,972
-
3,102
427,350
4,581
69,492
243,021 20,360,562
797,800
61,708
3,503,284
593,814
41,425,147
2,312,926
3,790
132
3,851,983
427,350
64,911
20,117,541
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 asylum or residence.
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
68
1,182,910
2,592,948
11,620,790
2,592,948
1,228,940
131,332
74,791,939
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.
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