annex figure 1 Historical review of the 51 major source countries of refugees This matrix depicts the annual ranking of countries of origin of refugees since 1980. Countries are listed if they featured among the top-20 at least once. Individual rankings are the result of population movements, demographic and legal changes, data revisions and re-classification of individual population groups. Palestinian refugees under UNHCR’s mandate are excluded as a result of incomplete data. Rank 1 1980 Rank 2-5 1985 1990 Rank 6-10 1995 Rank 11-20 2000 2005 2010 #of times in top 20 2015 Afghanistan Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bhutan Bosnia and H. Burundi Cambodia Central African Rep. Chad China Colombia Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Dem. Rep. of Congo El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea a Ethiopia Guatemala Islamic Rep. of Iran Iraq Lao People’s Dem. Rep. Liberia Mali Mauritania Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Philippines Russian Federation Rwanda b Serbia Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka c Sudan Syrian Arab Rep. Timor-Leste Togo Turkey Uganda Ukraine d Unknown origin Viet Nam Western Sahara Yemen a b c d 56 Ethiopia: includes Eritrea until its independence in the absence of seperate statistics available for both countries. Serbia and Kosovo: S/RES/1244 (1999). Includes Montenegro until its independence in the absence of seperate statistics available for both countries. Sudan: includes South Sudan until its independence in the absence of seperate statistics available for both countries. Unknown origin: Refers to refugees whose country of origin is unknown. Data availability has improved significantly over the years. UNHCR Global Trends 2015