Refugee population by country or territory of asylum - Migration - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators

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Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. Asylum seekers--people who have applied for asylum or refugee status and who have not yet received a decision or who are registered as asylum seekers--are excluded. Palestinian refugees are people (and their descendants) whose residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Country of asylum is the country where an asylum claim was filed and granted.

Rank	Country	Value
Refugee population by country or territory of asylum - Migration - Labor & Social Protection - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Low & middle income	12,941,590
2	Middle income	10,916,701
3	Lower middle income	9,826,527
4	Middle East & North Africa	7,696,877
5	Jordan	2,452,016
6	High income	2,220,032
7	Sub-Saharan Africa	2,124,149
8	South Asia	2,119,005
9	Low income	2,024,889
10	High income: OECD	1,923,889
11	Least developed countries: UN classification	1,880,805
12	West Bank and Gaza	1,836,123
13	Pakistan	1,780,935
14	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	1,715,352
15	Syria	1,567,595
16	Upper middle income	1,090,174
17	Iran	980,109
18	Euro area	966,251
19	Germany	582,735
20	Lebanon	472,607
21	East Asia & Pacific	463,586
22	Latin America & Caribbean	350,241
23	Chad	330,510
24	Tanzania	321,909
25	Kenya	320,605
26	China	300,967
27	High income: nonOECD	296,143
28	United Kingdom	292,097
29	United States	279,548
30	Saudi Arabia	240,572
31	Venezuela	201,161
32	Europe & Central Asia	187,732
33	India	184,543
34	Sudan	181,605
35	Canada	173,651
36	France	171,206
37	Uganda	162,132
38	Democratic Republic of the Congo	155,162
39	Yemen	140,169
40	Nepal	124,832
41	Thailand	112,932
42	Ecuador	101,398
43	Egypt	97,861
44	Serbia	96,739
45	Algeria	94,093
46	Ethiopia	83,583
47	Zambia	83,485
48	Cameroon	81,037
49	Netherlands	77,600
50	Sweden	77,038
51	Rwanda	55,062
52	Italy	47,061
53	Switzerland	46,132
54	South Africa	43,546
55	Iraq	39,503
56	Kuwait	38,238
57	Austria	37,557
58	Malaysia	36,671
59	Norway	36,101
60	Senegal	33,193
61	Bangladesh	28,389
62	Mauritania	27,041
63	Ivory Coast	24,811
64	Republic of the Congo	24,779
65	Montenegro	24,741
66	Denmark	23,401
67	Guinea	21,488
68	Burundi	21,093
69	Australia	20,919
70	Ghana	18,206
71	Costa Rica	18,136
72	Belgium	17,026
73	Panama	16,913
74	Gambia	14,836
75	Poland	12,774
76	Angola	12,710
77	Turkey	11,103
78	Liberia	10,224
79	Nigeria	10,124
80	Papua New Guinea	10,006
81	Ireland	9,730
82	Mali	9,578
83	Togo	9,377
84	Djibouti	9,228
85	Israel	9,137
86	Gabon	9,001
87	Guinea-Bissau	7,884
88	Sierra Leone	7,826
89	Hungary	7,750
90	Central African Republic	7,429
91	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7,257
92	Ukraine	7,201
93	Benin	6,933
94	Namibia	6,799
95	Libya	6,713
96	Finland	6,617
97	Bulgaria	5,129
98	Eritrea	4,862
99	Spain	4,661
100	Kazakhstan	4,352
101	Malta	4,332
102	Malawi	4,175
103	Armenia	3,953
104	Brazil	3,852
105	Russia	3,479
106	Zimbabwe	3,468
107	Mozambique	3,163
108	Luxembourg	3,109
109	Botswana	3,019
110	Argentina	2,845
111	New Zealand	2,716
112	Vietnam	2,357
113	Greece	2,164
114	Czech Republic	2,110
115	Azerbaijan	2,061
116	Japan	2,019
117	Somalia	1,842
118	Tajikistan	1,799
119	Macedonia	1,672
120	Chile	1,613
121	Croatia	1,597
122	Romania	1,596
123	Cyprus	1,465
124	Peru	1,075
125	Mexico	1,055
126	Georgia	996
127	Uzbekistan	821
128	Swaziland	775
129	Morocco	766
130	Lithuania	751
131	Bolivia	664
132	Belarus	609
133	Burkina Faso	557
134	Cuba	525
135	Portugal	403
136	Kyrgyzstan	375
137	Indonesia	369
138	Niger	320
139	Slovakia	317
140	Belize	277
141	Sri Lanka	269
142	Slovenia	268
143	United Arab Emirates	209
144	South Korea	172
145	North Korea	172
146	Colombia	170
147	Cambodia	164
148	Moldova	148
149	Nicaragua	147
150	Uruguay	145
151	Guatemala	130
152	Philippines	104
153	Hong Kong	103
154	Tunisia	94
155	Liechtenstein	89
156	Turkmenistan	79
157	Paraguay	75
158	Albania	65
159	Iceland	49
160	Bahrain	48
161	Afghanistan	37
162	Trinidad and Tobago	33
163	El Salvador	32
164	Latvia	32
165	Honduras	24
166	Estonia	22
167	Qatar	13
168	Mongolia	11
169	Singapore	10
170	Oman	7
171	Vanuatu	3
172	Haiti	3
173	Suriname	1
174	Timor-Leste	1
175	Micronesia	1

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