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Population, Health and Human Well-being — Displaced Persons: Refugees by country of destination Units: People

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		2005	2006	2007
World
World		8,394,373	9,877,699	9,679,617
		2005	2006	2007
Region/Classification
Asia (excluding Middle East)		2,121,868	1,961,108	1,683,619
Europe		1,737,629	1,612,443	1,564,360
Middle East & North Africa		1,318,290	2,762,208	3,624,718
North America		526,511	995,325	456,960
Oceania		80,270	84,037	34,907
South America		19,518	22,098	26,229
Sub-Saharan Africa		2,572,056	2,422,001	2,272,117
Developed Countries		2,659,245	2,845,656	2,101,491
Developing Countries		5,735,853	7,032,733	7,578,775
High Income Countries		2,392,437	2,780,056	2,142,366
Low Income Countries		4,014,024	3,815,618	3,535,457
Middle Income Countries		1,987,912	3,282,025	4,001,794
	ISO	2005	2006	2007
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	32	35	42
Albania	ALB	56	56	77
Algeria	DZA	94,101	94,180	94,137
Angola	AGO	13,984	13,090	12,069
Argentina	ARG	3,074	3,158	3,263
Armenia	ARM	219,550	113,714	4,566
Australia	AUS	64,964	68,948	22,164
Austria	AUT	21,230	25,486	30,773
Azerbaijan	AZE	3,004	2,618	2,352
Bangladesh	BGD	21,098	26,311	27,573
Belarus	BLR	725	690	649
Belgium	BEL	15,282	16,820	17,575
Belize	BLZ	624	488	358
Benin	BEN	30,294	10,797	7,621
Bolivia	BOL	535	567	632
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	10,568	10,318	7,367
Botswana	BWA	3,109	3,160	2,465
Brazil	BRA	3,458	3,492	3,783
Bulgaria	BGR	4,413	4,504	4,836
Burkina Faso	BFA	511	511	535
Burundi	BDI	20,681	13,176	24,468
Cambodia	KHM	127	99	179
Cameroon	CMR	52,042	35,083	60,137
Canada	CAN	147,171	151,827	175,741
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	41,627	27,288	24,647
Central African Rep	CAF	24,569	12,357	7,535
Chad	TCD	275,412	286,743	294,017
Chile	CHL	806	1,134	1,376
China	CHN	301,041	301,027	301,078
Colombia	COL	155	143	168
Comoros	COM	1	1	..
Congo	COG	66,075	55,788	38,472
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	204,341	208,371	177,390
Costa Rica	CRI	11,253	11,515	11,604
Croatia	HRV	2,927	2,443	1,642
Cuba	CUB	706	667	615
Cyprus	CYP	701	924	1,194
Czech Rep	CZE	1,802	1,887	2,037
Denmark	DNK	44,374	36,659	26,788
Djibouti	DJI	10,456	9,259	6,651
Ecuador	ECU	10,063	11,789	14,903
Egypt	EGY	88,946	88,022	97,556
El Salvador	SLV	49	39	39
Eritrea	ERI	4,418	4,621	5,031
Estonia	EST	7	5	18
Ethiopia	ETH	100,817	96,980	85,183
Finland	FIN	11,809	11,827	6,204
France	FRA	137,316	145,996	151,789
Gabon	GAB	8,545	8,429	8,826
Gambia	GMB	7,330	13,761	14,895
Georgia	GEO	2,497	1,373	1,047
Germany	DEU	700,016	605,406	578,879
Ghana	GHA	53,537	44,938	34,958
Greece	GRC	2,390	2,289	2,228
Guatemala	GTM	391	382	379
Guinea	GIN	63,525	31,468	25,226
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	7,616	7,804	7,860
Honduras	HND	22	22	22
Hong Kong	HKG	1,934	1,940	97
Hungary	HUN	8,046	8,075	8,131
Iceland	ISL	293	267	49
India	IND	139,283	158,366	161,537
Indonesia	IDN	89	301	315
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	716,403	968,370	963,546
Iraq	IRQ	50,177	44,406	42,354
Ireland	IRL	7,113	7,917	9,333
Israel	ISR	609	837	1,156
Italy	ITA	20,675	26,875	38,068
Japan	JPN	1,941	1,844	1,794
Jordan	JOR	965	500,229	500,281
Kazakhstan	KAZ	7,265	4,412	4,285
Kenya	KEN	251,271	272,531	265,729
Korea, Rep	KOR	69	96	118
Kuwait	KWT	1,523	50	159
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	2,598	366	370
Latvia	LVA	11	21	29
Lebanon	LBN	1,078	20,164	50,266
Liberia	LBR	10,168	16,185	10,458
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	LBY	12,166	2,760	4,098
Liechtenstein	LIE	150	277	283
Lithuania	LTU	531	531	688
Luxembourg	LUX	1,822	2,206	2,737
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	1,274	1,240	1,164
Malawi	MWI	4,240	3,943	2,929
Malaysia	MYS	33,693	37,170	32,243
Mali	MLI	11,233	10,585	9,203
Malta	MLT	1,939	2,404	3,000
Mauritania	MRT	632	770	971
Mexico	MEX	3,229	3,319	1,616
Moldova, Rep	MDA	84	161	151
Morocco	MAR	219	503	786
Mozambique	MOZ	1,954	2,558	2,767
Namibia	NAM	5,307	5,462	6,525
Nepal	NPL	126,436	128,175	128,181
Netherlands	NLD	118,189	100,574	86,587
New Zealand	NZL	5,307	4,906	2,740
Nicaragua	NIC	227	199	184
Niger	NER	301	317	319
Nigeria	NGA	9,019	8,768	8,460
Norway	NOR	43,034	43,336	34,522
Oman	OMN	7	7	7
Pakistan	PAK	1,084,694	1,044,462	887,273
Panama	PAN	1,730	1,848	1,890
Papua New Guinea	PNG	9,999	10,183	10,003
Paraguay	PRY	50	59	62
Peru	PER	848	911	995
Philippines	PHL	96	100	106
Poland	POL	4,604	6,790	10,053
Portugal	PRT	363	333	353
Qatar	QAT	46	46	46
Romania	ROU	2,056	1,658	1,757
Russian Federation	RUS	1,523	1,425	1,655
Rwanda	RWA	45,206	49,192	53,577
Saudi Arabia	SAU	240,701	240,772	240,742
Senegal	SEN	20,712	20,591	20,421
Serbia and Montenegro	YUG	148,264	105,923	106,523
Sierra Leone	SLE	59,965	27,365	8,795
Singapore	SGP	3	1	10
Slovakia	SVK	368	248	279
Slovenia	SVN	251	254	263
Somalia	SOM	493	669	901
South Africa	ZAF	29,714	35,086	36,736
Spain	ESP	5,374	5,275	5,147
Sri Lanka	LKA	106	162	182
Sudan	SDN	147,256	196,200	222,722
Swaziland	SWZ	760	752	789
Sweden	SWE	74,915	79,913	75,078
Switzerland	CHE	48,030	48,523	45,653
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	26,089	702,209	1,503,769
Tajikistan	TJK	1,018	929	1,133
Tanzania	TZA	548,824	485,295	435,630
Thailand	THA	117,053	133,117	125,643
Timor-Leste	TMP	3	3	1
Togo	TGO	9,287	6,328	1,328
Tunisia	TUN	87	93	101
Turkey	TUR	2,399	2,633	6,956
Turkmenistan	TKM	11,963	750	125
Uganda	UGA	257,256	272,007	228,959
Ukraine	UKR	2,346	2,275	2,277
United Arab Emirates	ARE	104	174	159
United Kingdom	GBR	293,459	301,556	299,718
United States	USA	379,340	843,498	281,219
Uruguay	URY	121	125	140
Uzbekistan	UZB	43,950	1,415	1,054
Venezuela	VEN	408	720	907
Viet Nam	VNM	2,357	2,357	2,357
Yemen	YEM	81,937	95,794	117,363
Zambia	ZMB	155,718	120,253	112,931
Zimbabwe	ZWE	13,850	3,519	3,981

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Source

Field Information and Coordination Support Section, Division of Operational Services, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 2008. 2007 Global Refugee Trends: Statistical overview of populations of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons, and other persons of concern to UNHCR. Geneva: UNHCR. Available online at http://www.unhcr.org.