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

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

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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.