Illustrating the worlds refugee hotspots: Europe

Hosting just 16% of the worlds

The countries they flee from and the hosts
that shelter them, all in one map
Top 50 origin countries of
UNHCR-monitored refugees
Internally displaced people
monitored by UNHCR
refugees, Europe has increased the
number of displaced people it hosts by
14,000 to 1,648,000 over the past year.
1,022,494 Where do Afghanistans refugees go?
Top 50 host countries of For the last three decades, Afghanistan has been the
Germany, with 600,000 refugees, and to Iran
UNHCR-monitored refugees leading country of origin for refugees. Currently,
the UK, with 270,000, are the biggest
Paleastinian refugees hosts, while refugees from Iraq, Serbia 2.9m Afghans are living in one of 71 host countries,
monitored by UNRWA Norway Sweden and Turkey are the largest groups though 96% are located in Iran and Pakistan. Their
37,826 positions as countries with the most refugees are
81,356 almost solely due to Afghans crossing their borders

30,320 Others include:

Denmark 20,355 to Germany 9,383 to Netherlands
8,528 to India
Russia 23,658
Canada 6,401 to Austria
UK 109,455 to UK
5,664 to Australia
169,434 5,026 to Denmark
269,363 Netherlands
76,008 Afghanistan
Ukraine
Germany 24,522 2,887,123
US 593,799 Asia and Pacific
275,461 France Refugee numbers in the Asia and Pacific
Serbia region grew by 7.2% to 3.9m, making it
196,364 Azerbaijan the host of 37% of the worlds refugees.
Haiti 86,351 Three-quarters of the refugee popula-
24,116 16,939 tion are Afghans, while 200,000 new
195,626 refugees from Burma were accepted by
Switz.

Austria
Croatia 18,000 Armenia Iran
Costa Rica 19,116 46,203 38,906 76,478 Georgia 15,020 Bangladesh
Bosnia
Venezuela 70,018
Montenegro
24,019 72,774 1,739,935
Italy
54,965 Turkey
15,711 to Pakistan
Colombia 146,387 China
201,313 Albania
389,753 180,558
1,070,488 Tibet 20,080 300,989
Burma
406,669
Nepal
108,461 Bhutan
Ecuador Syria 89,070 Vietnam
116,557 Pakistan 339,289
17,914

India
Americas Middle East and North 35,132 Thailand
Bangladesh
The region with the smallest number of Africa 1,054,466 19,514
228,586
105,297
refugees, at just over 810,000 people.
The 15% fall in refugee numbers, to just Iraq 17,025
Cambodia
Colombians consitute the largest
proportion, with Ecuadors acceptance over 2m, is mainly attributed to a 1,740,711 185,323

revised estimate of Palestinians in Saudi Malaysia

of over 25,000 refugees from guerilla
Arabia. Some 100,000 departing Iraqis 66,137
and drug violence. The US, with 275,000 from Jordan and Syria also outnum- 35,218
refugees, is the regions largest host 18,213 Indonesia
bered the arrival of 32,000 Somali Sri Lanka
country refugees in Yemen. Crucially, the
Lebanon 145,721
UNHCR figure does not include the
4.8m Palestinians living in camps in
16,260 1,785,212 22,548
the occupied territories - which are run 50,413 Australia
by another UN body, UNRWA
Israel
17,736 Jordan
450,756
Occupied

Algeria Egypt Palestinian

Western Territory
94,137 94,406
Sahara 95,201
116,474 Yemen
26,795 170,854
39,143 Who are the forcibly displaced? World refugees under UNHCR

Mauritania
Total
Senegal Chad 10.4m 15.2m
10,396,540 Europe

Sierra Leone 16,305

Eritrea 11.5m Under UNHCR Refugees
724,602
Middle East, North Africa
22,151 209,168
Internally displaced Shown above 1,647,443
15,417
55,014
Somalia people not under
UNHCR
2,099,697
Guinea
10,920 2,005,920
Togo
678,309
Liberia 23,153
43.3m Americas

24,604 338,495 465,275 Asia and Pacific

71,599 14,893 18,378 TOTAL
4.8m
Ivory Sudan Ethiopia Palestinian
812,332 4,276,792

Coast Ghana 15,609 Nigeria 62,889 refugees under 3,855,991

186,292 UNRWA
CAR 121,886
Cameroon 368,195 15.6m Rest of Africa
27,047 Internally displaced 2,627,624
14,766 people under UNHCR

2,052,700
2,074,854
27.1m Shown below
983,000

1,894,600
99,957 159,554 Various/Other
Uganda Kenya IDPs Asylum seekers
202,550

1,550,000
Congo
Africa 127,345 358,928 Unknown

3,304,000
20,544 South
Just over 2m refugees live in Africa, 141,021 Africa
after a decrease of 1.5%, the ninth
111,411
DR Congo Burun
47,974
consecutive annual fall. The naturalisa- di
tion of 150,000 Burundians into
185,809
Tanzania and repatriations in Sudan and 24,967 Rwanda
Rwanda offset the 280,000 new
455,852 Ang
54,016

,100
refugees created by renewed conflict in ola 94,239
129,109
Somalia and the Congo Dem Rep
 Zambia Interna
56,785 lly
22,449 Tanza
Stateless
displac Total
Zimbabwe nia 15,866 ed under
118,7 people UNHCR
31 (IDPs),
end 15,6
2009
27,9

446,300
434,900

519,100
399,000
250,000
246,900

297,100
224,900
27.1m
people
are
displaced
by
conflict
00
within
their own
countries.
Of these,
15.6m are
looked
after by
the
UNHCR.
Colombia,
with
3.3m, has
the most
IDPs,
while
renewed
conflict in

197,000
170,500
100,000
the

105,700
113,600
81,900
67,300
Congo

2,300
and
Pakistan
have
created
2.1m and
1.9m in
those
countries
last year.
Iraq and
Uganda
saw
significan
t falls, as
people
returned
home

Croatia Burma Russia* Burundi Bosnia Georgia* Chad CAR Serbia Georgia Yemen Afghanistan Kenya Sri Lanka Uganda Ivory Coast Azerbaijan Sudan Iraq Somalia Pakistan Congo Colombia

* includes people in IDP like situation SOURCE: UNHCR GRAPHIC: SCRUTON, MCCORMICK, SHEEHY