Fig.3 Major refugee-hosting countries | 2014 - 2015 (end-year) end-2015 start-2015 *Turkey Pakistan Lebanon Islamic Rep. of Iran Ethiopia **Jordan Kenya Uganda DR of Congo Chad 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 Number of refugees (millions) * Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey is a Government estimate. ** Includes 33,300 Iraqi refugees registered with UNHCR in Jordan. The Government estimates the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This includes refugees and other categories of Iraqis. South Sudan was the country with third-largest number of newly displaced refugees. The fourth-largest group of newly displaced refugees originated from Ukraine (148,400), mainly due to the renewed conflict and continued tensions in the eastern part of the country. Other countries from which large numbers were forced to flee during 2015 included the Central African Republic (85,000), Nigeria (68,200), Eritrea (35,500), Somalia (13,700), and Sudan (10,900). Countries of Asylum By the end of 2015, the 10 countries hosting the largest numbers of refugees were in developing regions, based on United Nations Statistics Division classification.13 Five of these were in sub-Saharan Africa. With 2.5 million refugees in its territory, Turkey remained the largest refugee-hosting country in the world at the end of 2015, compared to 1.6 million refugees reported one year ago Figure 3 . By the end of 2015, the number of refugees in Pakistan increased slightly to 1.6 million, compared to 1.5 million at the end of 2014, a rise largely accounted for by natural growth of the refugee communities 13 See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm for a list of countries included under each region. 14 In addition, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million undocumented Afghans and a large number of Afghans who hold Afghan passports and Iranian visas live in the Islamic Republic of Iran. already present in the country. Nearly all refugees residing in Pakistan, the second-largest refugee-hosting country, were Afghan, with some having lived there for more than 30 years. The total number of refugees residing in Lebanon had dropped by 83,200 individuals by the end of 2015, largely due to verification and de-registration exercises carried out during the year. Despite this reduction, Lebanon remained the third-largest refugee-hosting country, with a refugee population of 1.1 million by the end of the year. The Islamic Republic of Iran, the fourth-largest refugee-hosting country, had 979,400 refugees by the end of 2015.14 Ethiopia registered 74,600 refugees in 2015, increasing the refugee population to 736,100 people at the end of 2015. Thus the country continued to host the fifth-largest refugee population in the world as well as the largest refugee population in the subSaharan African region. As in 2014, Jordan and Kenya hosted the sixth- and seventh-largest refugee populations worldwide at the end of 2015. They provided protection and safety to 664,100 and 553,900 refugees, respectively. Uganda was affected by the crises in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan during the course of the year. As a result, 53,900 refugees were newly registered and 32,000 were UNHCR Global Trends 2015 15