Chapter 2 Figure 7 | Number of refugees per 1,000 inhabitants | end-2018 Lebanon 156 Jordan 72 Turkey 45 Chad 29 Uganda 26 Sudan 26 25 Sweden 23 South Sudan Malta Djibouti 20 19 smaller numbers of new refugees were registered in Rwanda (2,600) and South Sudan (800). Other countries of origin of new refugees included CAR (53,100, mainly to Chad and Cameroon), Nigeria (41,000, mainly to Cameroon), Cameroon (32,600, all to Nigeria), Sudan (19,700, mainly to South Sudan), Myanmar (16,300, all to Bangladesh), Eritrea (14,900, mostly to Ethiopia), Afghanistan (10,500, mostly to Greece) and Burundi (10,100, mostly to Rwanda and DRC). Turkey was the country of asylum that registered the most new refugees in 2018 with 397,600 Syrians registered under the Government’s Temporary Protection Regulation.27 This was followed by Sudan which reported new refugees from South Sudan (99,400), Syria (81,700), CAR (4,700) and Yemen (700). Uganda also registered 160,600 new refugees in 2018, mainly from DRC (119,900) and South Sudan (40,700). In addition, Cameroon reported 52,800 new refugees, from Nigeria (31,800) and CAR (20,900); Ethiopia reported 42,100 new refugees, mainly from South Sudan (25,400), Eritrea (14,600), Sudan (1,200) and Somalia (800); and Nigeria reported 32,600 new arrivals, all from Cameroon. Comparing host country situations Comparing the size of a refugee population with that of a host country can help measure the impact of unhcr > Global trends 2018 hosting that population. Figure 7 shows that Lebanon, while hosting the seventh largest refugee population, had the highest refugee population relative to national population with 156 refugees per 1,000 national population. 28 Similarly Jordan hosted the tenth largest refugee population but the second largest relative to national population with 72 refugees per 1,000. These figures relate only to the refugee population under UNHCR’s mandate, and Lebanon and Jordan respectively hosted an additional half a million and 2.2 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate. Turkey hosted the third largest refugee population relative to its national population with 45 refugees per 1,000. Half of the ten countries with the highest refugee population relative to national population were in sub-Saharan Africa. In high-income countries, there were, on average, 2.7 refugees per 1,000 national population, but this figure is more than doubled in middle- and lowincome countries, with 5.8 refugees per 1,000.29 ■ 27 Many of the newly registered refugees were present in Turkey prior to 2018. 28 National population data are from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “World population prospects: The 2017 revision”, New York, 2017. For the purpose of this analysis, the 2018 medium fertility variant population projections have been used. See: esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/ 29 Income groupings are from the World Bank: databank.worldbank. org/data/download/site-content/CLASS.xls 21