Chapter 5 Looking at country of origin, claims from unaccompanied and separated Afghan children were the most common (8,800) in 2017, about a quarter of the number in 2016 (26,700). The next most common country of origin was Eritrea (4,800) followed by the DRC (3,100), Gambia (2,600), Guinea (2,500), Somalia (2,400), Iraq (2,100), Pakistan (1,900), Syria (1,800), Nigeria (1,500), Bangladesh (1,300), Ethiopia (1,200), and Côte d’Ivoire (1,100). Registered refugees and asylum-seekers For the first time, UNHCR operations reported on the number of unaccompanied and separated children, and in the future this data collection will be extended to reporting by governments. A total of 138,700 unaccompanied and separated child refugees were reported in 2017 by 63 operations where UNHCR maintains its registration database. children with 7,900 from Burundi and 2,300 from the DRC. Other countries with high numbers of unaccompanied and separated child refugees reported included Cameroon (8,600), South Sudan (6,600), Egypt (4,300), Bangladesh (4,000), Jordan (3,900), Lebanon (3,700), Turkey (3,700),64 and Chad (3,200). Unaccompanied and separated children from South Sudan (54,600) accounted for 39 per cent of such children registered with UNHCR. This was due to both the high proportion of children in the South Sudanese refugee population (64 per cent) and the relatively high proportion of these children who were unaccompanied and separated (11 per cent). Other countries of origin for unaccompanied and separated child refugees in 2017 included Burundi (10,700), the DRC (10,200), Sudan (9,900) and Syria (9,900), Somalia (9,500), Central Africa Republic (9,300), Eritrea (8,700), and Myanmar (5,100). ■ The largest number of unaccompanied and separated child refugees and asylum-seekers was reported in Ethiopia with 43,300 children, representing 9 per cent of the entire child refugee population there. Most of these came from South Sudan (30,100), where children accounted for two-thirds of the refugee population; of these, unaccompanied and separated children comprised 9 per cent. In addition, there were 6,300 unaccompanied and separated refugee children from Somalia, 5,600 from Eritrea, and 1,200 from Sudan. Kenya reported 18,300 unaccompanied and separated refugee children in 2017. As with Ethiopia, most of these originated from South Sudan (12,200), followed by Somalia (2,200), the DRC (1,500), and Sudan (1,400). In Sudan, 12,400 unaccompanied and separated children were reported. Again, South Sudan was the country of origin for the majority of these children with 10,700 registered, in addition to 1,500 from Eritrea. Tanzania reported 10,200 unhcr > Global trends 2017 64 Not including Syrians. 49