annex table 2 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, or the Cartagena Declaration, 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 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 include 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 unhcr > Global trends 2017 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-WRDtable-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 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. 12 UNHCR's assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information. 13 Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic was a Government estimate. UNHCR has registered and is assisting 16,300 Iraqis at the end of 2017. The refugee population in Jordan includes 34,000 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. 14 IDP figure in Myanmar includes 120,000 persons in an IDP-like situation. 15 Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only. 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). 17 Figures for refugees and asylum-seekers may include citizens of South Sudan (in absence of separate statistics for both countries). 18 IDP figure in Ukraine includes 800,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation. 19 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. 20 The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 21 According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps. Source: UNHCR/Governments. 75