annex table 1 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 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. Where cases have been reported with an average number of persons, the number of cases reported has been multiplied by this average. This calculation has only been done to total numbers of asylumseekers by country of asylum. 5 Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during 2017. Source: country of origin and asylum. 6 Persons who are displaced within their country and to whom UNHCR extends protection 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 2017. 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. The figures reported includes stateless persons who are also refugees from Myanmar or IDPs in Myanmar. Most of these people originate from Rakhine State. UNHCR’s statistical reporting currently follows a methodology that reports on one legal status as a person of concern only. However, due to the extraordinary size of the newly displaced stateless population in Bangladesh, UNHCR considered it important to reflect, on an exceptional basis, the dual status that this population group possesses as to do otherwise might convey the mistaken impression that the overall number of stateless persons has declined significantly. For more information on UNHCR’s approach in reporting on this population group, please refer to the text box on p. 53 of this report. This approach will not be replicated in the database and in the Excel version of this table, and therefore, figures may differ. See Annex Table 7 at http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/17-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 or assistance services. These activities might be based on humanitarian or other special grounds. 10 The total population of concern may not sum due to the inclusion of displaced stateless Myanmar population as both refugees or IDPs and stateless. 11 The statelessness figure refers to a census from 2011 and has been adjusted to reflect the number of persons with undetermined nationality who had their nationality confirmed in 2011-2017. 12 According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps. 13 Australia's figures for asylum-seekers are based on the number of applications lodged for protection visas. 14 The figure reported relates to stateless persons who are also refugees from Myanmar, mainly from Rakhine State. This figure exceptionally includes 932,204 stateless refugees who are also counted in the column under “Refugees.” UNHCR’s statistical reporting currently follows a methodology that reports on one legal status as a person of concern only. However, due to the extraordinary size of the newly displaced stateless population in Bangladesh, UNHCR considered it important to reflect, on an exceptional basis, the dual status that this population group possesses as both refugees and stateless persons as to do otherwise might convey the mistaken impression that the overall number of stateless persons has declined significantly. For more information on UNHCR’s approach in reporting on this population group, please refer to the text box on p. 53 of this report. This approach will not be replicated in the database and in the Excel version of this table and, therefore, figures may differ. special ‘acquisition of nationality by declaration’ procedure until end of 2016. The estimate does not include individuals of unknown parentage who were abandoned as children and who are not considered as nationals under Ivorian law. 19 UNHCR's assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information. 20 UNHCR is currently working with the authorities and other actors to determine the size of the population that found an effective nationality solution under Law 169-14. Since the adoption of Law 169-14 in May 2014, important steps have been taken by the Dominican Republic to confirm Dominican nationality through the validation of birth certificates of individuals born in the country to two migrant parents. According to information released by the authorities, 20,872 individuals had been issued their Dominican civil documents by the end of 2017. 21 Almost all people recorded as being stateless have permanent residence and enjoy more rights than foreseen in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 22 All figures related to the end of 2016. Stateless figure refers to individuals without a nationality who were born in the Dominican Republic prior to January 2010 and who were identified by UNHCR in Haiti since June 2015. 23 Pending a more accurate study into statelessness in Iraq, the estimate of stateless persons in Iraq has been adjusted to reflect the reduction of statelessness in line with Law 26 of 2006, which allows stateless persons to apply for nationality in certain circumstances. 24 Figures are UNHCR estimates. 25 Includes 34,000 Iraqi refugees registered with UNHCR in Jordan. The Government estimated the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This includes refugees and other categories of Iraqis. 26 With respect to persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate, this figure includes persons of concern covered by two separate Latvian laws. 178 persons fall under the Republic of Latvia’s Law on Stateless Persons on 17 February 2004. 233,393 of the persons fall under Latvia’s 25 April 1995 Law on the Status of those Former USSR Citizens who are not Citizens of Latvia or Any Other State (“Non-citizens”). In the specific context of Latvia, the “Non-citizens” enjoy the right to reside in Latvia ex lege and a set of rights and obligations generally beyond the rights prescribed by the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, including protection from removal, and as such the “Non-citizens” may currently be considered persons to whom the Convention does not apply in accordance with Article 1.2(ii). 27 Refugee figure related to the end of 2016. 28 Updated figure is based on a registration and community legal assistance programme undertaken in West Malaysia by a local NGO with technical support from UNHCR, which began in 2014. During 2017, 906 persons of those registered acquired Malaysian nationality. 29 The figure reported relates to stateless persons in Rakhine State and persons of undetermined nationality residing in other States in Myanmar. This figure exceptionally includes 125,575 stateless IDPs who are also counted in the column under “IDPs of concern to UNHCR, including people in IDP-like situations.” Outside of Rakhine State, the figure of those with undetermined nationality (25,939) is based on government data released on 27 December 2016 indicating the number of persons who hold an Identity Card for National Verification whose citizenship has not yet been confirmed. The number of stateless persons in Rakhine State was estimated to be approximately one million at the end of 2016. Following large-scale departures to Bangladesh in 2017, the number of non-displaced stateless persons in Rakhine State (470,000) has significantly declined in comparison to the numbers reported in 2016 and previous years. For more information on UNHCR’s approach in reporting on this population group, please refer to the text box on p. 53 of this report. This approach will not be replicated in the database and in the Excel version of this table and, therefore, figures may differ. 30 The data was provided by Government on 14 September 2017. 31 Various studies estimate that a large number of individuals lack citizenship certificates in Nepal. While these individuals are not all necessarily stateless, UNHCR has been working closely with the Government of Nepal and partners to address this situation. 32 The data was provided by Government on 26 September 2017. 33 By the end of 2017, a total of 6,072 persons out of the 8,745 persons of Indonesian descent registered by the Government of the Philippines between 2014-2016 were confirmed as Filipino, Indonesian or dual nationals. 34 The statelessness figure refers to the census figure from 2010 adjusted to reflect the number of stateless persons who acquired nationality in 2011-2017. 16 All figures related to the end of 2016. 35 Refugee figure for Iraqis is a Government estimate. UNHCR has registered and is assisting 16,300 Iraqis at the end of 2017. Figure for stateless persons is an estimate. 17 The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 36 Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey is a Government estimate. 37 IDP figure in Ukraine includes 800,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation. 18 The statelessness figure is based on a Government estimate of individuals who themselves or whose parents or grandparents migrated to Côte d’Ivoire before or just after independence and who did not establish their nationality at independence or before the nationality law changed in 1972. The estimate is derived in part from cases denied voter registration in 2010 because electoral authorities could not determine their nationality at the time. The estimation is adjusted to reflect the number of persons who acquired nationality through the 38 The statelessness figure refers to stateless persons with permanent residence reported by the Government in 2010. The figure has been adjusted provided that citizenship of Uzbekistan was granted to 1,148 persons since December 2016. Information on other categories of stateless persons is not available. 15 Refugee figure related to the end of 2016. unhcr > Global trends 2017 39 A study is being pursued to provide a revised estimate of statelessness figure. Source: UNHCR/Governments. 69