REFUGEES Country/territory of asylum1 2 Refugees Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Total refugees Of whom and people assisted by in refugee-like UNHCR situations People in refugee-like 3 situations Asylumseekers (pending 4 cases) IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR, incl. people in IDP-like 6 situations Returned 5 refugees Returned 7 IDPs Stateless 8 persons 9 Various Total population of concern 3,970 - 3,970 - 3,280 - - - 28 - 7,278 251 - 251 251 338 1,489 434,900 94,600 - - 531,578 1,426,412 152,375 33,917 186,292 92,621 5,941 33,139 1,034,140 166,900 - - Suriname 1 - 1 1 - - - - - - 1 Swaziland 759 - 759 612 610 - - - - - 1,369 Sweden 81,356 - 81,356 - 18,953 - - - 7,758 - 108,067 Switzerland 46,203 - 46,203 - 17,139 - - - 67 - 63,409 1,054,466 - 1,054,466 222,966 3,080 - - - 300,000 - 1,357,546 Syrian Arab Rep.12 Tajikistan 2,679 - 2,679 2,037 1,513 - - - 2,626 - 6,818 105,297 - 105,297 105,297 10,255 - - - 3,500,000 - 3,615,552 1,065 477 1,542 1,542 75 - - - 1,911 - 3,528 1 - 1 - 10 - - - - - 11 8,531 - 8,531 472 150 284 - - - - 8,965 Trinidad and Tobago 37 - 37 37 196 - - - - - 233 Tunisia 92 - 92 45 36 - - - - - 128 Turkey 10,350 - 10,350 10,350 5,987 26 - - 2,739 306 19,408 Thailand The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Timor-Leste Togo Turkmenistan 60 - 60 60 - - - - 12,000 - 12,060 127,345 - 127,345 127,345 11,551 88 446,300 407,700 - - 992,984 2,334 5,000 7,334 421 2,059 - - - 56,500 - 65,893 279 - 279 279 76 - - - - - 355 United Kingdom 269,363 - 269,363 - 11,900 - - - 205 - 281,468 United Rep. of Tanzania 118,731 - 118,731 118,731 844 - - - - 155,051 274,626 United States of America 275,461 - 275,461 - 63,803 - - - - - 339,264 Uruguay 168 - 168 84 41 - - - - - 209 Uzbekistan 555 - 555 555 - 12 - - - - 567 4 - 4 3 - - - - - - 4 1,313 200,000 201,313 20,991 14,372 - - - - - 215,685 Uganda16 Ukraine United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Venezuela (Boliv. Rep. of) Viet Nam 2,357 - 2,357 - - 121 - - 7,200 - 9,678 Yemen 170,854 - 170,854 170,854 1,366 - 250,000 - - - 422,220 Zambia 56,785 - 56,785 35,115 78 - - - - - 56,863 3,995 - 3,995 3,995 635 19 - - - - 4,649 - - - - - 25 - - - - 25 8,806,867 1,589,673 10,396,540 5,512,932 983,420 251,478 15,628,057 2,229,540 6,559,573 411,698 36,460,306 Central Africa-Great Lakes 945,176 24,102 969,278 626,815 19,909 99,189 2,520,208 99,630 - 155,062 3,863,276 East and Horn of Africa 779,211 33,917 813,128 718,600 64,631 33,766 3,429,440 579,600 100,000 - 5,020,565 Southern Africa 143,422 - 143,422 62,280 325,685 2,499 - - - 14,479 486,085 Western Africa 149,018 8 149,026 139,660 9,320 2,011 519,140 166,816 - 4,656 850,969 Americas 519,149 293,183 812,332 89,978 193,758 70 3,303,979 - 118 - 4,310,257 Asia and Pacific 2,666,588 1,189,403 3,855,991 3,117,917 42,607 59,520 2,693,876 1,208,221 5,119,663 61,877 13,041,755 Europe 1,641,877 5,566 1,647,443 143,135 293,327 4,346 1,359,411 7,533 645,528 175,624 4,133,212 Middle East and North Africa 1,962,426 43,494 2,005,920 614,547 34,183 50,052 1,802,003 167,740 694,264 - 4,754,162 - - - - - 25 - - - - 25 8,806,867 1,589,673 10,396,540 5,512,932 983,420 251,478 15,628,057 2,229,540 6,559,573 411,698 36,460,306 Zimbabwe Various/unknown Grand Total UNHCR-Bureaux Various/unknown Total UN major regions Africa 2,216,035 84,027 2,300,062 1,663,984 436,930 149,480 6,468,788 846,046 100,064 174,197 10,475,567 Asia 4,418,605 1,201,897 5,620,502 3,629,317 67,928 97,584 5,434,532 1,381,234 5,820,357 144,924 18,567,061 Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Northern America 1,622,520 74,254 444,895 5,566 293,183 - 1,628,086 367,437 444,895 126,993 89,978 - 282,214 68,785 124,973 4,319 70 - 420,758 3,303,979 - 2,260 - 639,034 118 - 92,577 - 3,069,248 3,740,389 569,868 30,558 5,000 35,558 2,660 2,590 - - - - - 38,148 - - - - - 25 - - - - 25 8,806,867 1,589,673 10,396,540 5,512,932 983,420 251,478 15,628,057 2,229,540 6,559,573 411,698 36,460,306 Oceania Various Total Notes The data are generally provided by Governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. refugees, but for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained. 8 Refers to persons who are not considered nationals by any State under the operation of its laws. See table 7 for footnotes. A dash (-) indicates that the value is zero, not available or not applicable. 4 Persons whose application for asylum or refugee status is pending at any stage in the asylum procedure. 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. 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 24 industrialized countries based on 10 years of individual refugee 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 26 2009 Global Trends 5 Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during the calendar year. 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 the calendar year. 10 According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps. 11 The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection from the Government of China. 12 Refugee figures for Iraqis in Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic are Government estimates. 13 According to UNHCR, and based on lists provided by refugee communities in Malaysia, there are 20,000 unregistered asylumseekers in Malaysia who share the same profile as the current population of asylumseekers and refugees and who are being progressively registered and having their refugee status determined. 14 Total refugee figures for Pakistan include individually recognized Afghan refugees (2,800), registered Afghans in refugee villages who are assisted by UNHCR (756,000), and registered Afghans outside refugee villages who are living in a “refugeelike” situation (981,000). Individuals in all categories have been issued a Proof of Registration Card by the Government of Pakistan. Following the completion of the registration exercise in 2007, those living outside refugee villages are now in the “refugee-like” category. They do not receive direct UNHCR material assistance but they benefit from advocacy and reintegration support upon return. 15 Asylum-seekers (pending cases) refers to an estimated 171,700 undecided cases at first instance at the end of 2009 and 138,100 undecided cases at the end of 2008 (no update available). 16 The IDP figure at the end of 2009 represents the remaining IDP population in camps and transit sites. They remain of concern to UNHCR together with the 408,000 who have already returned to their villages. Source: UNHCR/Governments.