“More people are being displaced by war and persecution and that’s worrying in itself, but the factors that endanger refugees are multiplying too.” Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees year, Lebanon is first on this list, followed by Jordan. In Lebanon nearly one in five individuals is a refugee (under UNHCR’s mandate and not including Palestinian refugees under the UNRWA mandate), and these relatively large numbers have had a substantial political and socio-economic impact on the country. Using this method, Sweden and Malta are the only high-income countries to appear among the top 10, both with 17 refugees per 1,000 population. Both in terms of economic impact and demographic impact, low- and middle-income countries are being disproportionately affected by refugee movements. ● 21 Source for national populations: United Nations, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, New York, 2015. Fig.8 Where refugees from top 5 countries of origin found asylum | end-2015 (No. of refugees in millions) In 2015, the majority of refugees were able to find asylum in neighboring countries. Of the 10.1 million refugees from the five highest countries of origin, all but 1.1 million (11%) found safety in a neighboring country. This is the case for most of the refugee populations of concern to UNHCR. Major countries of asylum Major countries of origin 4.9 2.7 1.1 Syrian Arab Republic Afghanistan Somalia 0.8 South Sudan 0.6 Sudan Turkey 2.5 Pakistan 1.6 Lebanon 1.1 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.0 Jordan 0.6 Ethiopia 0.5 Kenya 0.5 Chad 0.3 Yemen South Sudan Uganda Sudan 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 Other 1.1 UNHCR Global Trends 2015 21