List of countries by refugee population

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Under international law, a refugee is a person who, being outside his country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution.

Below is a list of countries' refugee population:

Rank Country / Territory Total Population Refugee Population[citation needed] Natives per Refugee
— World 7,001,200,000 13,599,900 515
1  Palestine 3,761,646 1,828,100 2
2  Jordan 6,316,000 621,600 10
3  Syria 21,906,000 1,763,900 12
4  Lebanon 4,224,000 333,500 13
5  Chad 11,206,000 330,500 34
6  Iran 74,196,000 993,600 75
7  Kuwait 2,985,000 40,000 75
8  Cyprus [1] 801,600 10,000 80
9  Botswana 1,950,000 23,100 84
10  Saudi Arabia 25,721,000 291,100 88
11  Republic of the Congo 3,683,000 40,000 92
12  Pakistan 175,215,500 1,775,600 99
13  Djibouti 864,000 8,800 98
14  Ecuador 14,036,775 135,000 104
15  Kenya 39,802,000 377,400 105
16  Mauritania 3,291,000 30,600 108
17  Gabon 1,475,000 13,100 113
18  Gambia 1,705,000 14,900 114
19  Venezuela 28,456,383 211,000 135
20  Tanzania 43,739,000 321,900 136
21  Zambia 12,935,000 88,900 146
22  Serbia[2] 9,850,000 66,600 148
23  Malaysia 27,468,000 171,500 160
24  Yemen 23,580,000 145,700 162
25  Rwanda 9,998,000 59,000 169
26  Thailand 63,389,730 368,800 172
27  Sudan 42,272,000 233,900 181
28  Namibia 2,171,000 11,700 186
29  South Africa 49,320,000 256,200 193
30  Guinea-Bissau 1,611,000 8,300 194
31  Panama 3,454,000 17,200 201
32  Uganda 32,710,000 155,400 210
33  Cameroon 19,522,000 91,900 212
34  Nepal 29,331,000 121,300 242
35  Costa Rica 4,579,000 18,600 246
36  Burundi 8,303,000 26,300 316
37  Greece 11,257,285 34,300 328
38  Sierra Leone 5,696,000 17,200 331
39  Libya 6,420,000 18,900 340
40  Dem. Rep. of Congo 66,020,000 192,700 343
41  Senegal 12,534,000 35,900 349
42  Guinea 10,069,000 28,100 358
43  Algeria 34,895,000 96,500 362
44  Norway [3] 4,834,000 13,300 363
45  Sweden 9,292,359 23,400 397
46  Israel [4] 7,434,000 16,500 451
48  Central African Republic 4,422,000 9,100 486
49  Egypt 77,116,112 152,400 506
50  Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,767,000 7,400 509
51  Switzerland 7,739,100 13,700 565
52  Ethiopia 79,221,000 135,200 586
53  Somalia 9,133,000 15,300 597
54  Republic of Macedonia 2,048,620 3,200 640
55  Papua New Guinea 6,732,000 10,000 673
56  Austria 8,355,260 12,200 685
57  Armenia 3,230,100 4,500 718
58  Iraq 30,747,000 39,500 778
59  Côte d'Ivoire 21,075,000 26,300 801
60  Spain 45,929,476 5,600 820
61  Bangladesh 162,221,000 193,100 840
62  Togo 6,619,000 6,900 959
63  Niger 15,290,000 15,700 974
64  Eritrea 5,073,000 5,000 1015
65  Benin 8,935,000 8,400 1064
66  Liberia 3,476,608 18,800 1064
67  Angola 18,498,000 15,900 1163
68  Mali 13,010,000 11,100 1172
70  Finland [5] 5,343,608 4,200 1272
71  Ghana 23,837,000 18,700 1275
72  Malawi 15,263,000 11,600 1316
73  Russia 141,708,000 107,000 1324
74  Netherlands 16,535,207 11,800 1401
75  Germany 82,046,000 593,800 138
76  Belgium 10,754,528 7,100 1515
77  Croatia 4,435,056 2,600 1706
78  Mozambique 22,894,000 12,900 1775
79  United States 313,201,000 161,200 1943
80  Denmark 5,519,441 2,800 1971
81  Australia[6] 22,855,000 9,900 2309
82  United Kingdom 61,634,599 26,600 2317
83  India 1,207,580,000 411,000 2938
84  France [7] 65,073,482 22,300 2918
85  Azerbaijan 8,629,900 2,800 3082
86  Italy 60,088,880 19,000 3163
87  Zimbabwe 12,523,000 3,900 3211
88  Czech Republic 10,467,542 3,200 3271
89  Kazakhstan 15,776,492 4,500 3506
90  Turkey 71,517,100 18,200 3930
91  People's Republic of China[8] 1,350,050,000 332,000 4066
92  Poland 38,100,700 5,700 6684
93  Brazil 196,297,000 21,400 9173
94  Vietnam 85,789,573 9,500 9030
95  Nigeria 154,729,000 9,200 16818
96  South Korea 48,333,000 2,500 19333
97  Mexico 107,550,697 3,600 29875
98  Japan 127,590,000 3,100 41158
99  Indonesia 229,965,000 unknown unknown
100  Philippines 92,222,660 unknown unknown
101  Myanmar (Burma) 50,020,000 unknown unknown
102  Ukraine 46,029,281 unknown unknown
103  Colombia 45,064,807 unknown unknown
104  Argentina 40,134,425 unknown unknown
105  Morocco 31,567,613 unknown unknown
106  Peru 29,132,013 unknown unknown
107  Afghanistan 28,150,000 unknown unknown
108  Uzbekistan 27,488,000 unknown unknown
109  North Korea 24,051,706 unknown unknown
110  Taiwan[9] 23,069,345 unknown unknown
111  Romania 21,498,616 unknown unknown
112  Sri Lanka 20,238,000 unknown unknown
113  Madagascar 19,625,000 unknown unknown
114  Chile 17,378,000 unknown unknown
115  Burkina Faso 15,757,000 unknown unknown
116  Cambodia 14,805,000 unknown unknown
117  Guatemala 14,027,000 unknown unknown
118  Cuba 11,204,000 unknown unknown
119  Portugal 10,627,250 unknown unknown
120  Tunisia 10,327,800 unknown unknown
121  Dominican Republic 10,090,000 unknown unknown
122  Haiti 10,033,000 unknown unknown
123  Hungary 10,031,208 unknown unknown
124  Bolivia 9,863,000 unknown unknown
125  Belarus 9,671,900 unknown unknown
126  Bulgaria 7,606,551 unknown unknown
127  Honduras 7,466,000 unknown unknown
128  Hong Kong 7,008,900 unknown unknown
129  Tajikistan 6,952,000 unknown unknown
130  Paraguay 6,349,000 unknown unknown
131  Laos 6,320,000 unknown unknown
132  El Salvador 6,163,000 unknown unknown
133  Nicaragua 5,743,000 unknown unknown
134  Kyrgyzstan 5,482,000 unknown unknown
135  Slovakia 5,413,548 unknown unknown
136  Turkmenistan 5,110,000 unknown unknown
137  Singapore 4,839,400 unknown unknown
138  United Arab Emirates 4,599,000 unknown unknown
139  Ireland 4,422,100 unknown unknown
140  Georgia [10] 4,385,400 unknown unknown
141  New Zealand 4,433,100 unknown unknown
142  Puerto Rico 3,982,000 unknown unknown
143  Moldova [11] 3,567,500 unknown unknown
144  Uruguay 3,361,000 unknown unknown
145  Lithuania 3,349,872 unknown unknown
146  Albania 3,170,000 unknown unknown
147  Oman 2,845,000 unknown unknown
148  Jamaica 2,719,000 unknown unknown
149  Mongolia 2,671,000 unknown unknown
150  Latvia 2,257,300 unknown unknown
151  Lesotho 2,067,000 unknown unknown
152  Slovenia 2,045,249 unknown unknown
153  Qatar 1,409,000 unknown unknown
154  Estonia 1,340,415 unknown unknown
155  Trinidad and Tobago 1,339,000 unknown unknown
156  Mauritius [12] 1,288,000 unknown unknown
157  Swaziland 1,185,000 unknown unknown
158  East Timor 1,134,000 unknown unknown
159  Fiji 849,000 unknown unknown
160  Bahrain 791,000 unknown unknown
161  Guyana 762,000 unknown unknown
162  Bhutan 697,000 unknown unknown
163  Comoros [13] 676,000 unknown unknown
164  Equatorial Guinea [14] 676,000 unknown unknown
165  Montenegro 624,000 unknown unknown
166  Macau 546,200 unknown unknown
167  Solomon Islands 523,000 unknown unknown
168  Suriname 520,000 unknown unknown
169  Western Sahara 513,000 unknown unknown
170  Cape Verde 506,000 unknown unknown
171  Luxembourg 493,500 unknown unknown
172  Malta 413,627 unknown unknown
173  Brunei 400,000 unknown unknown
174  Bahamas 342,000 unknown unknown
175  Belize 322,100 unknown unknown
176  Iceland 319,246 unknown unknown
177  Maldives 309,000 unknown unknown
178  Barbados 256,000 unknown unknown
179  Vanuatu 240,000 unknown unknown
180  Netherlands Antilles 198,000 unknown unknown
181  Samoa 179,000 unknown unknown
182  Guam 178,000 unknown unknown
183  Saint Lucia 172,000 unknown unknown
184  São Tomé and Príncipe 163,000 unknown unknown
185  Federated States of Micronesia 111,000 unknown unknown
186  U.S. Virgin Islands 110,000 unknown unknown
187  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 109,000 unknown unknown
188  Aruba 107,000 unknown unknown
189  Grenada 104,000 unknown unknown
190  Tonga 104,000 unknown unknown
191  Kiribati 98,000 unknown unknown
192  Jersey 89,300 unknown unknown
193  Antigua and Barbuda 88,000 unknown unknown
194  Northern Mariana Islands 87,000 unknown unknown
195  Andorra 86,000 unknown unknown
196  Seychelles 84,000 unknown unknown
197  Isle of Man 80,000 unknown unknown
198  Dominica 67,000 unknown unknown
199  American Samoa 67,000 unknown unknown
200  Bermuda 65,000 unknown unknown
201  Marshall Islands 62,000 unknown unknown
202  Guernsey 61,811 unknown unknown
203  Greenland 57,000 unknown unknown
204  Cayman Islands 56,000 unknown unknown
205  Saint Kitts and Nevis 52,000 unknown unknown
206  Faroe Islands 48,940 unknown unknown
207  Liechtenstein 35,593 unknown unknown
208  Monaco 33,000 unknown unknown
209  Turks and Caicos Islands 33,000 unknown unknown
210  Gibraltar 31,000 unknown unknown
211  San Marino 30,800 unknown unknown
212  British Virgin Islands 23,000 unknown unknown
213  Cook Islands 20,000 unknown unknown
214  Palau 20,000 unknown unknown
215  Anguilla 15,000 unknown unknown
216  Tuvalu 10,000 unknown unknown
217  Nauru 10,000 unknown unknown
218  Saint Helena [15] 6,600 unknown unknown
219  Montserrat 5,900 unknown unknown
220  Falkland Islands 3,000 unknown unknown
221  Niue 1,500 unknown unknown
222  Tokelau 1,400 unknown unknown
223  Vatican City 800 unknown unknown
224  Pitcairn Islands 50 unknown unknown

[edit] References

  1. ^ UN estimate for mid-2009 is 871,000
  2. ^ Includes Kosovo
  3. ^ Includes Svalbard (2,701) and Jan Mayen Island
  4. ^ UN figure for mid-2009 is 7,170,000, which excludes Israeli population living in the West Bank.
  5. ^ Includes Åland Islands
  6. ^ Includes Christmas Island (1,508), Cocos (Keeling) Islands (628), and Norfolk Island (1,828)
  7. ^ Includes 7 French overseas collectivities: French Polynesia (259,596 inh. in Aug. 2007), New Caledonia (244,410 inh. in Jan. 2008), Mayotte (186,452 inh. in July 2007), Saint Martin (35,263 inh. in Jan. 2006), Wallis and Futuna (13,484 inh. in Jul. 2008), Saint Barthélemy (8,450 inh. in Jan. 2007), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (6,125 inh. in Jan. 2006).
  8. ^ Figure refers to Mainland China only. It excludes the special administrative regions
  9. ^ Consists of the island groups of Taiwan, the Pescadores, Kinmen, Matsu, etc.
  10. ^ Figure includes the Republic of Abkhazia (216,000) and South Ossetia (70,000)
  11. ^ Includes Transnistria (555,347)
  12. ^ Includes Agalega, Rodrigues and St. Brandon
  13. ^ Excludes the island of Mayotte.
  14. ^ A 2003 U.S State Department report states the following: "Although the 2002 census estimated the population at 1,015,000, credible estimates put the number at closer to 500,000. The opposition claimed that the Government inflated the census in anticipation of the December presidential election." (...) "Opposition leaders charged earlier in the year that census results showing a twofold population increase were flawed and that numbers were inflated to perpetuate election fraud." [1] The official census figures are available here.
  15. ^ Includes Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
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