annex table 2 Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs), stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by origin | end-2015 (ctnd) REFUGEES IDPs protected/ assisted by Persons UNHCR, under incl. people UNHCR’s Others of Total Returned in IDP-like Returned statelessness concern to population IDPs7 mandate 8 UNHCR9 of concern refugees 5 situations 6 Total refugees and People in people in of whom: refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR2 3 situations assisted Refugees situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) 4 5,313,282 9,302,125 506,708 80,049 306,410 671 5,393,331 9,608,535 507,379 4,418,397 7,798,354 23,291 660,424 1,146,965 179,656 130,781 68,372 468 11,197,751 17,265,028 1,918,326 1,226,506 1,090,263 545 - 518,870 245,978 66,529 19,127,663 29,425,141 2,672,903 197,898 250,404 448,302 41,167 177,716 1,794 7,113,067 - - 25,101 7,765,980 4,912 1,387 157,581 Total 15,483,893 637,534 4,912 9 1,387 7 157,581 1,567 16,121,427 12,282,792 603 799 1,053,778 3,219,941 201,415 37,494,172 2,317,314 3,687,729 3,687,729 Origin1 UN major regions Africa Asia Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Northern America Oceania Various/Stateless 17 5,532 1 2,187 14,244 4,913,332 870,740 63,912,738 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 2015. 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 protected/assisted by UNHCR who have returned to their place of origin during 2015. 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/15-WRD-table-7.xls for detailed notes. 9 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 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 suggests that cessation enters into effect latest by the end of 2017. 66 UNHCR Global Trends 2015 11 UNHCR's assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information. 12 Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic was a Government estimate. UNHCR has registered and is assisting 18,300 Iraqis at the end of 2015. The refugee population in Jordan includes 33,200 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. 13 Figure of stateless persons was estimated from the 2014 census. It does not include an estimated 151,921 stateless IDPs, persons in an IDP-like situation who are also of concern under the statelessness mandate because they are already included within the figures on IDPs.In Rakhine State it is estimated to be approximately one million. 14 Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only. 15 The number of Rwandan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is subject to change based on an ongoing registration exercise. The figure 245,000 was provided by the Government of Democratic Republic of the Congo. 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). IDP figure in South Sudan includes 105,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation. 17 The statistics of the remaining IDPs at the end of 2015, while provided by the Government authorities at the district level, are being reviewed by the central authorities. Once this review has been concluded, the statistics will be changed accordingly. 18 Figures for refugees and asylum-seekers may include citizens of South Sudan (in absence of separate statistics for both countries). 19 IDP figure in Ukraine includes 800,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation. 20 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. 21 The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 22 According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps. Source: UNHCR/Governments.