CHAPTER 2 Figure 4 | Major refugee-hosting countries *Turkey Pakistan Lebanon Islamic Rep. of Iran Uganda Ethiopia **Jordan Germany DR of the Congo Kenya 0 0.5 end-2016 * 1.0 end-2015 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 Refugee population (millions) Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey was a Government estimate. ** Includes 33,100 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. The refugee population in Lebanon also reduced slightly, mainly due to data reconciliation, deregistration, and departures for resettlement. However, Lebanon still hosted just over 1.0 million refugees at the end of 2016, compared with just under 1.1 million in 2015 and 1.2 million refugees in 2014. The majority of refugees in Lebanon are from Syria (1.0 million), with 6,500 from Iraq. The registered refugee population in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the fourth-largest refugee-hosting country, remained unchanged at 979,400 people at the end of 2016. 22 country to 338,800 people, up from 281,500 the previous year. There were 242,000 refugees from Somalia, a slight decrease from 2015, while significant numbers of refugees from Eritrea (165,600) and Sudan (39,900) remained in Ethiopia by the end of 2016. Jordan experienced a small increase in its refugee population, providing protection to 685,200 people by the end of 2016, up from 664,100 in 2015 and making it the seventh-largest refugee-hosting country in the world. The vast majority of these refugees were from Syria (648,800), while 33,100 were from Iraq and 2,200 from Sudan. Uganda experienced a dramatic increase in the refugee population, mostly in the second half of 2016. At the end of 2015, there were 477,200 refugees in the country, a number that had nearly doubled to 940,800 a year later. Most new arrivals came from South Sudan, with refugees from that country accounting for 639,000 people or 68 per cent of the total refugee population. Significant numbers of refugees in Uganda also originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (205,400), Burundi (41,000), Somalia (30,700), and Rwanda (15,200). In Germany, the refugee population increased considerably, mainly due to new decisions on asylum claims of those who arrived during 2015 and early 2016. At the end of 2015, the refugee population was 316,100, while a year later this number stood at 669,500. Most were refugees from Syria (375,100), while other countries of origin included Iraq (86,000), Afghanistan (46,300), Eritrea (30,000), the Islamic Republic of Iran (22,900), and Turkey (19,100). The refugee population in Ethiopia also increased during 2016, reaching 791,600 people. The majority of arrivals came from South Sudan, bringing the total number of South Sudanese refugees in the 22 The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran registers all refugees in the country. With the exception of refugees in settlements, UNHCR has most recently received only the aggregate number of refugees from the Government in May 2015. UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2016 15