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TABLE 1 **Refugee populations by UNHCR regions ** | 2015

Start-2015 Mid-2015 Change (total) People in People in refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR regions Refugees situations Total refugees Refugees situations Total refugees Absolute %

- Central Africa and Great Lakes 625,000 37,600 662,600 865,100 13,700 878,800 216,200 32.6%

- East and Horn of Africa 2,568,000 33,400 2,601,400 2,713,700 33,600 2,747,300 145,900 5.6%

- Southern Africa 174,700 - 174,700 179,800 - 179,800 5,100 2.9%

- West Africa 252,000 - 252,000 258,900 - 258,900 6,900 2.7%
Total Africa * 3,619,700 71,000 3,690,700 4,017,500 47,300 4,064,800 374,100 10.1% UNHCR regions Refugees People in refugee-like situations Total refugees Refugees Americas 509,300 259,700 769,000 501,000 251,900 752,900 -16,100 -2.1% Asia and Pacific 3,568,500 280,100 3,848,600 3,506,600 278,400 3,785,000 -63,600 -1.7% Europe 3,095,000 18,200 3,113,200 3,475,300 14,300 3,489,600 376,400 12.1% Middle East and North Africa 2,898,500 65,400 2,963,900 2,941,100 64,200 3,005,300 41,400 1.4%
**Total** **13,691,000** **694,400** **14,385,400** **14,441,500** **656,100** **15,097,600** **712,200** **5.0%**

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- Excluding North Africa.

gees from Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Both countries continued to host the majority of Afghan refugees, with 1.5 million and 951,000 persons, respectively. As such, Afghanistan remained the second-largest source country for refugees.
Somalia was the third-largest source country of refugees worldwide and the largest in sub-Saharan Africa, with the number of Somali refugees remaining stable at 1.1 million. Kenya (418,900), Yemen (249,000), and Ethiopia (247,300) were the main host countries of these refugees.

Fig. 2 **Where do the world’s refugees**
**come from?**

(in millions) Syrian Arab Rep.

Afghanistan Somalia South Sudan Sudan The ongoing conflict in South Sudan forced tens of thousands of individuals to flee to neighbouring countries during the first half of the year. As a result, the estimated number of South Sudanese refugees grew from 616,200 at the beginning of 2015 to 744,100 at the end of June 2015. This made South Sudan the fourth-largest source country of refugees worldwide. Ethiopia (275,400), Sudan (190,700), and Uganda (179,600) were hosting the largest populations of South Sudanese refugees.
The number of Sudanese refugees dropped from 665,900 at the beginning of the year to 640,900 at mid-2015, making this the fifth-largest source country of refugees at mid-2015. This decline is largely due to a biometric verification exercise undertaken in Chad, where records of many refugees have either been closed or deactivated, assuming these refugees had left Chad.
Other important source countries of refugees included the Democratic Republic of the Congo (535,300), the Central African Republic (470,600), Myanmar (458,400), Eritrea (383,900), and Iraq (377,700).

By Country of Asylum By mid-2015, refugees resided in 169 countries or territories. Sudan now features among the top 10 refugee-hosting countries, having replaced China.

**mid-2015** This is largely due to the conflict in South Sudan,

**end-2014** which forced tens of thousands to flee to Sudan, as

**mid-2014** outlined above. With this inclusion, half of the top

**end-2013** 10 refugee-hosting countries are now located in

sub-Saharan Africa, with four of them being least developed countries.
With 1.84 million refugees in its territory, 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 Turkey remained the country hosting the largest Dem. Rep.
of Congo Central African Rep.

Myanmar Eritrea

**mid-2015**

**end-2014**

**mid-2014**

**end-2013**

Iraq

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number of refugees at mid-2015. This is a significant turnaround, as until 2012, Turkey did not feature among even the top 20 refugee-hosting countries. At the end of the reporting period, Syrians accounted for 1.81 million or 98 per cent of all registered refugees in the country, most of them located in urban agglomerations. In addition, the number of Iraqi refugees registered with UNHCR in Turkey stood at 20,600.
Pakistan hosted the second-largest number of refugees worldwide with 1.5 million individuals, virtually all of them from Afghanistan. The renewal of some 80,000 Proof of Registration cards for Afghan refugees was partly offset by the voluntary return of around 44,700 Afghans from Pakistan to their country.
Lebanon remained the third-largest refugeehosting country, with 1.2 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate. As in Turkey, the overwhelming majority (99%) of refugees in Lebanon originated from the Syrian Arab Republic. This was in addition to 7,300 Iraqi refugees.
The number of refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran remained virtually unchanged from the beginning of 2015, at 982,000 at mid-year. This figure included 951,000 Afghan refugees and 28,300 Iraqi refugees. As such, the Islamic Republic of Iran remained the fourth-largest refugee-hosting country worldwide.
The refugee population in Ethiopia continued to grow in 2015, reaching 702,500 by mid-year. This compares to 659,500 six months earlier and is the result of an influx of South Sudanese and Eritrean refugees, among others. Ethiopia remained the fifth-largest refugee-hosting country worldwide, with the largest such populations originating from South Sudan (275,400), Somalia (247,300), Eritrea (139,300), and Sudan (36,500).
The number of refugees in Jordan under UNHCR’s mandate increased by about 10,000 persons to 664,100 at mid-year, most of whom originated from the Syrian Arab Republic. The refugee population in Kenya remained virtually unchanged at 552,300. As such, Jordan and Kenya remained the sixth- and seventh-largest refugee-hosting countries, respectively.
With renewed conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, tens of thousands of individuals fled these two countries to Uganda during the first part of the year. As a consequence, Uganda hosted a new all-time high for the country of 428,400 refugees.

0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0

***** Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey is a Government estimate.

Other important refugee-hosting countries at mid-year were Chad and Sudan, with 420,800 and 356,200 refugees, respectively. The top 10 refugee-hosting countries combined hosted close to 8.7 million or 57 per cent of all refugees under UNHCR’s mandate.

New Refugee Arrivals More than 839,000 persons were newly displaced across international borders during the first half of 2015, the overwhelming majority of whom found refuge in neighbouring countries or elsewhere in the immediate region. This figure refers to refugees who have been recognized on a _prima facie_ basis as well as those who have been newly registered and granted temporary protection. An additional 221,000 persons were granted refugee status or a complementary form of protection following refugee status determination during the reporting period.
Armed conflict in both the Syrian Arab Republic and Ukraine predominantly accounted for this new displacement, as half of the 839,000 persons originated from one of these two countries. While more than 318,000 Syrians were newly registered during the first half of 2015, UNHCR Mid-Year Trends 2015 **7** Fig. 3 **Major refugee-hosting countries** (in millions)

*Turkey

Pakistan Lebanon Iran (Islamic Rep. of) Ethiopia Jordan Kenya

**mid-2015**

Uganda Chad Sudan

**end-2014**

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**end-2013**

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Fig. 4 **Number of refugees per 1 USD GDP (PPP)**
**per capita ** | mid-2015

Ethiopia 469 Pakistan Uganda Dem. Rep.
of Congo Chad Kenya South Sudan Afghanistan Cameroon Turkey 322 216 208 193 186 135 117 102 94 mostly in neighbouring countries, more than 97,000 Ukrainians were granted temporary protection in the Russian Federation.
Excluding the Syrian Arab Republic and Ukraine, the vast majority of newly displaced persons originated from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The outbreak of violence in Burundi combined with renewed and ongoing fighting in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Nigeria, and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have contributed most significantly to the high level of new displacement during the first half of the year.

Fig. 5 **Number of refugees per 1,000**
**inhabitants ** | mid-2015

Lebanon 209 More than 140,400 Burundians were recognized as refugees on a _prima facie_ basis during the reporting period, notably in the United Republic of Tanzania (69,400), Rwanda (58,700), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (11,700). Similarly, an estimated 118,800 South Sudanese sought refuge in neighbouring countries during the first half of 2015, mainly in Sudan (72,500), Ethiopia (23,800), and Uganda (17,500). Other countries in sub-Saharan Africa affected by armed conflict or violence

- and thus source countries of new displacement

- during the reporting period included the Central
African Republic (56,200), Nigeria (31,200), and Sudan (22,100).

Contributions of Host Countries Two main measures – economic and non-economic **[(5)]**

- are used as a proxy to evaluate the contributions
of host countries with respect to refugee burdensharing. Using both measures, developing countries appeared to be shouldering a significant proportion of this burden.
According to the economic measure, the top 10 countries are all located in developing regions. **[(6)]** Similarly, according to the non-economic measure, of the top 10 countries, the first eight are developing nations, while those ranked 9 [th] and 10 [th] are industrialized countries.
Evaluating the impact of refugees by per capita **[(7)]** Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), **[(8)]** Ethiopia ranked at the top with 469 refugees per 1 USD. This indicates that Ethiopia is the largest refugee-hosting country in sub-Saharan Africa in both absolute and relative terms. With 322 refugees per 1 USD GDP (PPP) per capita, Pakistan ranked second, followed by Uganda (216), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (208), Chad (193), and Kenya (186) [ _see_ **Figure 4** ].
Examining the number of refugees per 1,000 inhabitants changes the rankings. Under this criterion, the impact of the Syria crisis is more visible, with Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey among the top five countries. With 209 refugees per 1,000 inhabitants, Lebanon ranked at the top of the list, followed by Jordan with 90 refugees per 1,000 inhabitants, Nauru (51), Chad (31), Turkey (24), and South Sudan (22) [ _see_ **Figure 5** ]. n

**(7)** Source for national populations: United Nations, Population Division, World
Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, New York, 2015. For the purpose of this analysis, the 2014 estimates have been taken into account.

**(8)** Source for GDP (PPP): International Monetary Fund, World Economic
Outlook Database, October 2015 (accessed 10 November 2015).

Jordan Nauru Chad Turkey South Sudan Mauritania Djibouti Sweden Malta 90 51 31 24 22 19 17 15 15

**(5)** That is the size of a refugee population compared to the Gross Domestic
Product (Purchasing Power Parity) – the GDP (PPP) – per capita or to the national population size.

**(6)** See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm for a list
of countries included under each region.

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**Children play video games in a makeshift arcade in the Arbat camp** for internally displaced persons near
Sulaymaniya, Iraq in June 2015. The Arbat IDP camp is one of the most overcrowded in Iraq. Initially designed as a transit centre for only 700 families, the camp now houses close to 3,000 people. Solutions are nowhere in sight, water is in short supply, electricity is intermittent and the sanitation is inadequate.

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**ASYLUM-SEEKERS**

Close to one million individual asylum applications were registered in 155 countries or territories during the first half of 2015, significantly more than during the corresponding period of 2014 (558,000). **[(9)]** An estimated 12 per cent of these claims were registered at ‘second instance’, including with courts and other appellate bodies. UNHCR offices registered 115,200 individual asylum applications, out of the provisional total of 993,600 (12%).

New Individual Asylum Applications Registered During the first half of the year, persons of at least 190 nationalities submitted new asylum applications in 155 asylum countries or territories around the world.

**(9)** The 2014 figure excludes asylum applications registered with South Africa’s
Department of Home Affairs, in the absence of such data provided by the Government.

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Asylum statistics in Europe: a word of caution The asylum figures for Europe quoted in this report should be treated with caution. The statistical picture of the number of people seeking international protection in Europe is partially distorted because of the reported instances of the same individual being registered as asylumseeker multiple times across the continent. The actual number of individuals lodging asylum applications in Europe is thus likely to be lower than described in this section.

At 159,900, Germany received the highest number of new asylum applications worldwide during the first six months of 2015. This compares to 173,100 asylum applications registered by the German authorities for the whole of 2014. At current trend, Germany is very likely to hit an all-time high in 2015. Historical data available since 1953 show that the previous record dates back to 1992, when 432,100 asylum applications were recorded by Germany [ _see_ **Figure 6** ]. **[(10)]** The sharp increase during the reporting period is attributable mainly to a higher number of individuals from Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)), **[(11)]** and the Syrian Arab Republic requesting international protection. Syrian asylum applications in Germany more than doubled from 12,100 in the first half of 2014 to 32,500 one year later. On average, one out of every five asylum claims in Germany was made by a Syrian national.

Germany was followed by the Russian Federation, which registered 100,000 asylum applications.
This figure includes 720 applications for refugee status and 99,300 for temporary asylum. The outbreak of conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014 continued to have a major impact on these figures, with 98,500 or 98 per cent of claims in the Russian Federation being lodged by Ukrainians.
The United States of America was the third-largest single recipient of new asylum claims during the first six months of 2015, with an estimated 78,200 **[(12)]** asylum claims. This constituted a 44 per cent increase (+23,800 claims) compared to the same period the previous year. Asylum-seekers from Honduras (+209%), El Salvador (+125%), Guatemala (+102%), and Mexico (+12%), among others, accounted for this increase – half of all asylum claims in the country were lodged by nationals of these countries, compared to 42 per cent for the whole of 2014. This proportion has consistently increased in recent years, reflecting the deteriorating situation as a result of violence generated by transnational organized crime, gang activity, and drug cartels in some parts of the region. Overall, El Salvador was

**(10)** The 1992 and earlier figures include a sizeable number of repeat
applications registered in Germany.

**(11)** References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security
Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and henceforth will be referred to in this document as Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)).

**(12)** Estimated number of individuals based on the number of new cases
(40,963) and multiplied by 1.393 to reflect the average number of individuals per case (Source: US Department of Homeland Security), and the number of new defensive asylum requests lodged with the Executive Office of Immigration Review (21,136 individuals).

Fig. 6 **New asylum applications registered in Germany ** | 1953-2015

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**Sisters Salma, 10 and Saima 7, look after baby Moustafa** while their
parents arrange their long-awaited return home to Afghanistan. Their family fled to Pakistan 35 years ago, and the children have never seen Afghanistan. They have big hopes for the future.

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Fig. 7 **Main destination countries for new**
**asylum-seekers ** | First half 2015

300 250 200 150 100 50 (x1,000) **2014 (total)** **First half 2015** 0

***** Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999))

the main country of origin of asylum-seekers to the United States of America with 8,700 applications, followed by Guatemala (7,700), Mexico (7,500), Honduras (7,400), and China (7,300).
Hungary ranked fourth with 65,400 new asylum applications registered during the first half of 2015.
This constituted a 13-fold increase compared to the first semester of 2014 (4,800 new applications) and a 79 per cent increase compared to the second (36,500). A large number of those applying for asylum in Hungary move onward to other countries in the European Union, where they are typically registered again as asylum-seekers.
A sharp shift in the composition and dynamics of registered asylum applications in Hungary was observed during the reporting period. The first quarter of 2015 was dominated by asylum applicants originating from Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)), with more than 22,800 persons lodging such a claim, yet this figure dropped to less than 500 during the second quarter.
In contrast, the second quarter in Hungary witnessed a soaring number of asylum applicants from Afghanistan (13,600 claims, up from 4,000 during the first quarter) and the Syrian Arab Republic (8,400, up from 2,400). These two countries together accounted for two-thirds of all asylum applications in Hungary during the second quarter.
Overall, Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) was the main place of origin for asylum applicants in Hungary during the reporting period (23,300

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applications), followed by Afghanistan (17,600), the Syrian Arab Republic (10,800), and Iraq (3,200).
As of December 2015, close to 2.2 million registered Syrian refugees in Turkey benefitted from the Government’s Temporary Protection Regime. In addition, Turkey continued to witness high numbers of individual asylum applications registered with UNHCR. In Turkey, the Office registered 87,800 new asylum applications during 2014, the highest figure on record and almost double that of 2013 (44,800 claims). During the first half of 2015, more than 43,600 asylum applications were registered by UNHCR, making Turkey the fourthlargest recipient of individual asylum applications worldwide. **[(13)]** With 25,700 asylum claims, Iraqis accounted for more than half of these applications.
Other important source countries of asylum applications were Afghanistan (12,100 claims) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (4,300).
Other places receiving large numbers of asylum applicants were South Africa (37,800 new asylum claims), Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) (37,400), Italy (30,100), and France (29,800).
During the first half of 2015, UNHCR’s offices registered 110,000 new individual applications for refugee status and another 5,200 on appeal or for review. The office in Turkey received the largest number of new requests (43,600), followed by Jordan (14,100), Lebanon (10,400), Egypt (8,800), and Malaysia (8,800). Of all UNHCR offices receiving asylum applications during the period under review, these five operations registered 78 per cent of new claims recorded by the organization.

By Origin As the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic entered its fifth year, Syrians remained the main group of asylum-seekers worldwide, with 114,500 new asylum applications registered during the first six months of 2015. This compares to 59,600 new asylum applications registered during the corresponding period of 2014. Syrians lodged asylum claims in 104 countries or territories worldwide, compared to 96 a year earlier. About two-thirds (67%) or 76,700 of these claims were registered in five places: Germany (32,500), Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) (18,400), Hungary (10,800), Austria (7,700), and Sweden (7,200). Provisional data indicate that recognition rates for Syrians in most countries are

**(13)** This figure excludes the more than 250,000 Syrians who were registered by
the Government of Turkey during the first half of the year.

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around or above 90 per cent, reflecting this group’s significant need for international protection.
As the conflict in eastern Ukraine continued into 2015, Ukrainians became the second-largest group of asylum-seekers, with 111,900 new asylum applications registered during the first half of 2015.
Most of these claims were recorded in the Russian Federation (98,500), Germany (2,600), and Italy (2,400). This compares to 20,300 new asylum applications one year earlier.
Afghanistan was the third-largest country of origin for asylum-seekers in the first half of 2015.
Afghans lodged some 72,100 asylum claims during the reporting period, significantly more than during the first half of 2014 (26,500). Hungary became an important recipient of Afghan asylum applications, with 17,600 new claims registered during the first half of 2015, an almost ninefold increase over the first half of 2014 (2,000 applications) and roughly triple the number registered during the second halfof 2014 (6,500). While Turkey remained an important destination for Afghans, with 12,100 asylum claims registered during the reporting period, Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) became a major hotspot, as the Serbian authorities registered 10,900 Afghan asylum applications, compared to 420 one year earlier. Similar to Hungary, a large number of those applying for asylum in Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) move onward to other European countries, where they are typically registered again as asylum-seekers.
Other important places of origin of asylumseekers were Serbia and Kosovo (S/RES/1244 (1999)) (70,200), Iraq (65,800), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (29,300), Albania (26,100), and Eritrea (22,300).
Some 2.3 million asylum applications were pending by mid-2015, about 219,100 more than at the beginning of the year. The largest backlog of registered asylum applications by June 2015 was in South Africa, with an estimated 798,100 applications. South Africa was followed by Germany (311,600 pending asylum applications), the United States of America (224,500), Turkey (145,300), and Sweden (56,100). n IV

**INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS**

Updated information on the global number of IDPs due to armed conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations was not available at the time of writing this report. **[(14)]** The IDP populations reported in this document are limited to conflict-generated IDPs or persons in an IDP-like situation, to whom the agency extends protection or assistance.
Hence, UNHCR’s statistics do not provide a comprehensive picture of global internal displacement.
According to UNHCR offices in 26 countries, the number of IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR, including those in IDP-like situations, **[(15)]** stood at an estimated 34.0 million at mid-2015. This compares to 32.2 million at the start of the year.
During the first half of the year, at least 4.2 million persons were newly displaced by conflict and violence within their countries, compared to 4.1 million in the corresponding period of 2014.
Yemen reported the largest number of newly displaced persons (933,500), **[(16)]** followed by Ukraine (559,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (558,000), Nigeria (378,500), Iraq (366,500), and Pakistan (309,200).
The number of newly displaced persons within the Syrian Arab Republic was not available for the first six months of 2015. However, with 7.6 million IDPs, the Syrian Arab Republic remained the country with the highest such number worldwide. Despite security concerns, UNHCR was able to assist an estimated 1.3 million of these individuals by mid-2015.
According to the Government, 6.5 million individuals were registered as IDPs in Colombia at mid-year. Other countries where significant IDP populations were protected or assisted by UNHCR included Iraq (4.0 million), Sudan (2.3 million),

**(14)** The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre estimated the global number
of persons displaced by armed conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations at the end of 2014 to be some 38.2 million.

**(15)** As in Myanmar (35,000), South Sudan (105,000), and Sudan (77,300).

**(16)** The estimated number of IDPs in Yemen had reached 2.3 million at the
time of writing this report.

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Fig. 8 **IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR**
| 2000-2015 (end-year)

Pakistan (1.6 million), South Sudan (1.5 million), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.5 million), **[(17)]** Nigeria (1.4 million), and Ukraine (1.4 million).
Afghanistan too has seen a surge in internal displacement of some 50 per cent compared to 18 months ago as conflict intensified, reaching a figure of 948,000 IDPs by mid-2015.
An estimated 1.4 million IDPs returned to their areas of origin during the first half of 2015, about 200,000 fewer than the corresponding period in 2014. Important IDP returns were reported by Pakistan and the Philippines with 336,600 and 334,900 individuals, respectively. Other countries that reported significant numbers of returned IDPs during the reporting period included the Democratic Republic of the Congo (193,800), South Sudan (148,500), the Central African Republic (138,800), and Nigeria (122,700). n

**(17)** Source: OCHA

35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 (in millions)

***** Mid-2015

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**STATELESS PERSONS**

The collection of accurate statistics on stateless persons has been and continues to be a challenge for all stakeholders. While the global number of stateless persons is estimated to be at least 10 million, available data in this report are limited to some 3.9 million persons in 78 countries or territories. This compares to the 3.5 million individuals reported at the end of 2014. This increase is mainly the result of the newly reported figure of around 300,000 persons in Zimbabwe, an estimation that largely concerns a migrant population that arrived from neighbouring countries as farm and mine workers during the colonial period. Multiple changes in the nationality legislation of Zimbabwe have negatively impacted the nationality status of this population.
In contrast, a downward revision in the stateless ness figure was reported in the Dominican Republic. This revised estimate of 133,770 stateless persons includes only individuals born in the country to parents who were both born abroad, and it does not include individuals born in the country to one foreign-born and one Dominican-born parent, as the previously reported figure of 210,000 did. This estimate does not include subsequent generations of individuals of foreign descent, as there is no reliable population data available on groups other than first-generation individuals. As such, this estimate does not include all persons without nationality in the country. It will be adjusted as official data becomes available on the number of individuals who have found an effective nationality solution under Law 169-14. n VI

**RESETTLEMENT**

During the first six months of the year, UNHCR assisted some 33,400 refugees in 76 countries or territories to depart for resettlement. This is a decline of about 3,600 individuals compared to the

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corresponding period of 2014 (37,000). The top five countries that reported significant UNHCRassisted resettlement departures were Malaysia (5,700), Turkey (3,800), Thailand (3,100), Nepal

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(2,600), and Lebanon (2,400). These five countries combined accounted for about half of all assisted resettlement departures during the reporting period.
Individuals holding some 62 different nationalities benefited from UNHCR’s resettlement programme during the first half of 2015. Refugees originating from Myanmar constituted the largest number (8,600), followed by those from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4,700), the Syrian Arab Republic (4,000), Iraq (3,700), and Somalia (3,500). Combined, persons from these five countries accounted for 73 per cent of all UNHCRassisted resettlement departures. n VII

**REFUGEE RETURNS**

To some extent, voluntary returns of refugees to their country of origin can be an indication of stability and safety in those countries. Following this logic, it is tempting to assume that the number of refugee returns is proportional to the level of safety prevailing in their country of origin, as refugees are expected to return under conditions of safety and in dignity. This is not always the case, however.
The number of returning refugees has remained fairly low in recent years. An estimated 84,400 individuals returned during the first half of 2015, compared to 107,000 during the same period in 2014. While the overall number of refugee returns in 2014 (126,800) was already the lowest in more than three decades, current trends indicate that 2015 figures may even be lower. Some 63,800 of those who had returned by mid-2015 did so with UNHCR assistance.
UNHCR offices in 28 countries reported the return of refugees, with the largest numbers returning to Afghanistan (46,100), Somalia (19,000), Sudan (3,900), and Iraq (3,300). Together, these four countries of origin accounted for 85 per cent of all returnees. Countries with the highest number of refugee departures, meanwhile, included Pakistan (44,700), Yemen (16,500), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5,100), and Chad (4,900). n UNHCR Mid-Year Trends 2015 **15**

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annex TABLE 1 **Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by country/territory of asylum **
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** Of whom assisted by UNHCR Returned refugees **[5]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Country/ territory of asylum **[1]** People in and people in Of whom seekers UNHCR, incl. UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like assisted by (pending Returned people in IDP- Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations UNHCR cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDPlike situations **[6]** Returned IDPs **[7]** Afghanistan 205,558 20,156 225,714 _225,714_ 101 46,148 947,872 300 - 201,284 1,421,419 Albania 154 - 154 _154_ 501 - - - 7,443 - 8,098 Algeria **[10]** 94,144 - 94,144 _90,139_ 5,892 - - - - - 100,036 Angola 15,572 - 15,572 _54_ 30,086 2,887 - - - - 48,545 Antigua

-                    -                    - _-_ 10                    -                    -                    -                    -                    - 10
and Barbuda Argentina 3,523 - 3,523 _113_ 897 - - - - - 4,420 Armenia 3,240 12,450 15,690 _7,297_ 114 - - - 238 - 16,042 Aruba - - - _-_ 2 - - - - - 2 Australia **[11]** 35,582 - 35,582 _-_ 22,837 - - - - - 58,419 Austria **[12]** 60,747 - 60,747 _-_ 30,900 - - - 570 - 92,217 Azerbaijan 1,357 - 1,357 _1,357_ 262 - 622,892 - 3,585 - 628,096 Bahamas 7 - 7 _7_ 19 - - - - 30 56 Bahrain 277 - 277 _277_ 78 - - - - - 355 Bangladesh **[13]** 32,975 200,000 232,975 _32,975_ 11 - - - - - 232,986 Barbados 1 - 1 _1_ - - - - - - 1 Belarus 1,369 - 1,369 _617_ 257 - - - 6,302 - 7,928 Belgium 31,115 - 31,115 _-_ 9,396 - - - 5,267 - 45,778 Belize - - - _-_ 146 - - - - - 146 Benin 488 - 488 _488_ 84 - - - - - 572 Bolivia (Plurinational 767 - 767 _153_ 8 - - - - - 775 State of) Bonaire, Saint

-                    -                    - _-_                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and 6,805 - 6,805 _6,805_ 11 19 84,500 - 79 52,437 143,851 Herzegovina Botswana 2,164 - 2,164 _2,164_ 248 - - - - - 2,412 Brazil 7,762 - 7,762 _708_ 17,902 - - - 2 40,336 66,002 British Virgin Islands - - - _-_ - - - - - - Brunei Darussalam - - - _-_ - - - - 20,524 - 20,524 Bulgaria **[14]** 11,046 - 11,046 _11,046_ 7,840 - - - 67 - 18,953 Burkina Faso 34,027 - 34,027 _34,027_ 180 - - - - - 34,207 Burundi 54,126 - 54,126 _54,126_ 2,733 11 78,948 - 1,302 590 137,710 Cabo Verde - - - _-_ - - - - 115 - 115 Cambodia 80 - 80 _76_ 33 - - - - 131 244 Cameroon 288,552 13,741 302,293 _289,806_ 7,835 - 81,693 - - - 391,821 Canada **[14]** 149,163 - 149,163 _-_ 14,481 - - - - - 163,644 Cayman Islands 6 - 6 _6_ 1 - - - - 100 107 Central African Rep. 7,906 - 7,906 _7,170_ 394 1,220 368,859 138,825 - - 517,204 Chad 420,774 - 420,774 _420,774_ 2,749 - - - - 50,000 473,523 Chile 1,798 - 1,798 _55_ 719 - - - - - 2,517 China **[15]** 301,057 - 301,057 _150_ 564 - - - - - 301,621 China, 151 - 151 _151_ 9,940 - - - 1 - 10,092 Hong Kong SAR China, Macao SAR - - - _-_ 6 - - - - - 6 Colombia 219 - 219 _33_ 56 22 6,520,270 - 12 - 6,520,579 Comoros - - - _-_ - - - - - - Congo, Republic of 61,492 - 61,492 _61,492_ 3,248 1 - - - 1,069 65,810 Costa Rica 3,475 - 3,475 _3,469_ 1,819 - - - 2,613 - 7,907 Côte d’Ivoire 1,972 - 1,972 _1,972_ 667 74 24,000 - 700,000 57 726,770 Croatia 669 41 710 _710_ 90 24 - - 2,886 13,774 17,484 Cuba 313 - 313 _172_ 12 - - - - - 325 Curaçao 44 - 44 _44_ 41 - - - - - 85 Cyprus **[16]** 5,763 - 5,763 _-_ 2,339 - - - - 6,000 14,102 Czech Rep. **[14]** 3,137 - 3,137 _-_ 409 - - - 1,502 - 5,048 Dem. Rep. of 160,271 - 160,271 _131,686_ 1,124 3,230 1,491,769 193,841 - 150,771 2,001,006 the Congo **[17]** Denmark **[14]** 17,785 - 17,785 _-_ 4,566 - - - 4,984 - 27,335 Djibouti 14,787 - 14,787 _14,787_ 2,586 - - - - - 17,373 Dominica - - - _-_ - - - - - - Dominican Rep. **[18]** 609 - 609 _609_ 752 - - - 133,770 - 135,131 Ecuador **[12]** 53,378 68,344 121,722 _53,378_ 11,583 - - - - - 133,305 Egypt 226,344 - 226,344 _226,344_ 30,019 - - - 21 - 256,384 El Salvador 48 - 48 _13_ - - - - - - 48 Equatorial Guinea - - - _-_ - - - - - - Eritrea 2,944 - 2,944 _2,944_ 1 1 - - - 21 2,967 Estonia **[19]** 117 - 117 _-_ 117 - - - 86,522 - 86,756 Ethiopia 702,467 - 702,467 _702,467_ 2,871 2 - - - 346 705,686 Fiji 12 - 12 _12_ 8 - - - - - 20 Finland **[14]** 11,798 - 11,798 _-_ 2,622 - - - 1,928 - 16,348 ... /...

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annex TABLE 1

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by country/territory of asylum **
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** Of whom assisted by UNHCR Returned refugees **[5]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Country/ territory of asylum **[1]** People in and people in Of whom seekers UNHCR, incl. UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like assisted by (pending Returned people in IDP- Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations UNHCR cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDPlike situations **[6]** Returned IDPs **[7]** France 264,972 - 264,972 _-_ 53,827 - - - 1,290 - 320,089 Gabon 1,008 - 1,008 _1,008_ 1,886 - - - - - 2,894 Gambia 11,773 - 11,773 _11,773_ 2 - - - - - 11,775 Georgia 1,060 599 1,659 _1,659_ 587 - 265,267 - 793 - 268,306 Germany 250,299 - 250,299 _-_ 311,551 - - - 11,978 - 573,828 Ghana 18,476 - 18,476 _18,476_ 2,855 - - - - - 21,331 Greece 7,304 927 8,231 _-_ 29,157 - - - 214 - 37,602 Grenada - - - _-_ - - - - - - Guatemala 202 - 202 _87_ 73 - - - - - 275 Guinea 8,704 - 8,704 _8,704_ 293 - - - - - 8,997 Guinea-Bissau 8,684 - 8,684 _8,684_ 123 - - - - - 8,807 Guyana 11 - 11 _11_ 1 - - - - - 12 Haiti 5 - 5 _-_ 5 - - - - - 10 Honduras 23 - 23 _11_ 19 - - - - - 42 Hungary 4,192 - 4,192 _-_ 24,431 - - - 128 - 28,751 Iceland 104 - 104 _-_ 225 - - - 119 - 448 India 200,383 - 200,383 _26,799_ 5,381 - - - - - 205,764 Indonesia 5,277 - 5,277 _5,277_ 7,911 - - - - - 13,188 Iran (Islamic Rep. of) 979,441 - 979,441 _979,441_ 42 8 - - - - 979,491 Iraq **[20]** 288,035 - 288,035 _288,035_ 7,420 3,318 3,962,142 716 50,000 29 4,311,660 Ireland **[14]** 5,853 - 5,853 _-_ 4,300 - - - 99 - 10,252 Israel 361 38,139 38,500 _5,348_ 6,591 - - - 88 - 45,179 Italy **[14]** 93,715 - 93,715 _-_ 48,307 - - - 606 - 142,628 Jamaica 15 - 15 _15_ 3 - - - - - 18 Japan **[21]** 2,419 - 2,419 _412_ 10,705 - - - 631 - 13,755 Jordan **[22]** 664,102 - 664,102 _664,102_ 20,693 - - - - - 684,795 Kazakhstan 662 - 662 _662_ 149 - - - 7,038 - 7,849 Kenya 552,272 - 552,272 _552,272_ 40,341 1,231 - - 20,000 - 613,844 Kuwait 593 - 593 _593_ 1,040 - - - 93,000 - 94,633 Kyrgyzstan 433 - 433 _433_ 168 - - - 13,678 - 14,279 Lao People’s

-                    -                    - _-_                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    Dem. Rep.

Latvia **[23]** 195 - 195 _-_ 171 - - - 262,802 - 263,168 Lebanon 1,172,388 - 1,172,388 _1,172,388_ 10,851 - - - - 5,813 1,189,052 Lesotho 44 - 44 _-_ 1 - - - - - 45 Liberia 38,904 - 38,904 _38,904_ 18 6 - - 1 1,479 40,408 Libya 27,948 - 27,948 _27,948_ 8,904 - 434,869 - - - 471,721 Liechtenstein 107 - 107 _-_ 75 - - - 2 - 184 Lithuania 1,055 - 1,055 _-_ 54 - - - 3,583 - 4,692 Luxembourg 1,192 - 1,192 _-_ 831 - - - 81 - 2,104 Madagascar 10 - 10 _10_ 9 - - - - - 19 Malawi 8,963 - 8,963 _8,963_ 13,669 - - - - - 22,632 Malaysia 97,385 188 97,573 _97,573_ 54,400 - - - 40,000 80,000 271,973 Mali 14,970 - 14,970 _14,486_ 386 740 90,218 41,995 - - 148,309 Malta 6,095 - 6,095 _-_ 425 - - - - - 6,520 Mauritania 50,851 26,000 76,851 _50,851_ 407 - - - - - 77,258 Mauritius - - - _-_ - - - - - - Mexico 2,158 - 2,158 _212_ - - - - 13 55 2,226 Micronesia (Federated - - - _-_ 34 - - - - - 34 States of) Monaco 33 - 33 _-_ - - - - - - 33 Mongolia 11 - 11 _11_ 5 - - - 16 - 32 Montenegro 6,203 - 6,203 _6,203_ 7 - - - 3,284 10,318 19,812 Montserrat - - - _-_ - - - - - - Morocco 2,144 - 2,144 _2,144_ 2,216 - - - - - 4,360 Mozambique 4,552 - 4,552 _2,482_ 14,257 - - - - 7 18,816 Myanmar **[24]** - - - _-_ - 1 368,500 8,000 1,090,000 - 1,466,501 Namibia 1,659 - 1,659 _1,468_ 1,100 5 - - - 1,679 4,443 Nauru 506 - 506 _-_ 816 - - - - - 1,322 Nepal **[25]** 36,287 - 36,287 _21,287_ 57 - - - - 409 36,753 Netherlands **[14]** 82,494 - 82,494 _-_ 8,097 - - - 1,951 - 92,542 New Zealand **[14]** 1,349 - 1,349 _-_ 251 - - - - - 1,600 Nicaragua 361 - 361 _81_ 25 2 - - 1 2 391 Niger 82,064 - 82,064 _82,064_ 122 - 50,000 - - 70,000 202,186 Nigeria 1,279 - 1,279 _1,279_ 909 - 1,385,298 122,719 - - 1,510,205 Norway **[14]** 47,043 - 47,043 _-_ 5,885 - - - 1,997 - 54,925 Oman 122 - 122 _122_ 268 - - - - - 390 Pakistan 1,540,854 - 1,540,854 _1,540,854_ 6,103 2 1,556,400 336,606 - - 3,439,965 ... /...

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annex TABLE 1

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by country/territory of asylum **
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** Of whom assisted by UNHCR Returned refugees **[5]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Country/ territory of asylum **[1]** People in and people in Of whom seekers UNHCR, incl. UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like assisted by (pending Returned people in IDP- Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations UNHCR cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDPlike situations **[6]** Returned IDPs **[7]** Palau 1 - 1 _1_ - - - - - - 1 Panama 2,303 15,000 17,303 _330_ 2,038 - - - 2 - 19,343 Papua New Guinea 4,929 4,581 9,510 _-_ 400 - - - - - 9,910 Paraguay 161 - 161 _24_ 39 - - - - - 200 Peru 1,407 - 1,407 _39_ 366 - - - - - 1,773 Philippines 254 - 254 _17_ 163 - 42,171 334,888 8,619 68 386,163 Poland **[14]** 15,741 - 15,741 _-_ 2,470 - - - 10,825 - 29,036 Portugal **[14]** 699 - 699 _-_ 641 - - - 14 - 1,354 Qatar 133 - 133 _133_ 100 - - - 1,200 - 1,433 Rep. of Korea 1,313 - 1,313 _394_ 5,102 - - - 200 - 6,615 Rep. of Moldova 389 - 389 _389_ 164 - - - 6,233 - 6,786 Romania 2,426 - 2,426 _156_ 138 - - - 294 - 2,858 Russian Federation **[26]** 315,313 - 315,313 _3,596_ 2,423 - - - 113,474 - 431,210 Rwanda 132,743 - 132,743 _132,743_ 253 2,196 - - - 361 135,553 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1 - 1 _1_ - - - - - - 1 Saint Lucia 2 - 2 _2_ 2 - - - - 60 64 Saint Vincent and

-                    -                    - _-_                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    the Grenadines
Sao Tome and

-                    -                    - _-_                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    -                    Principe

Saudi Arabia 184 27 211 _211_ 93 - - - 70,000 - 70,304 Senegal 14,304 - 14,304 _14,304_ 2,956 - - - - - 17,260 Serbia and Kosovo 35,309 - 35,309 _7,360_ 464 73 220,227 159 3,490 - 259,722 (S/RES/1244 (1999)) Sierra Leone 1,371 - 1,371 _458_ 16 - - - - - 1,387 Singapore - - - _-_ - - - - - 1 1 Sint Maarten 3 - 3 _3_ 5 - - - - - 8 (Dutch part) Slovakia **[14]** 799 - 799 _-_ 61 - - - 1,523 148 2,531 Slovenia 283 - 283 _-_ 43 - - - 4 - 330 Solomon Islands 3 - 3 _3_ - - - - - - 3 Somalia 3,582 - 3,582 _3,582_ 9,320 19,004 1,133,000 - - 69 1,164,975 South Africa 114,512 - 114,512 _11,451_ 798,080 - - - - - 912,592 South Sudan **[27]** 265,887 - 265,887 _265,887_ 632 - 1,643,484 148,530 - - 2,058,533 Spain **[14]** 5,798 - 5,798 _-_ 11,020 - - - 440 - 17,258 Sri Lanka **[28]** 848 - 848 _848_ 461 231 50,268 - - - 51,808 State of Palestine - - - _-_ - 3 - - - - 3 Sudan **[29]** 322,638 33,553 356,191 _268,262_ 11,448 3,896 2,342,979 50,105 - 3,290 2,767,909 Suriname 1 - 1 _1_ - - - - - - 1 Swaziland 539 - 539 _127_ 321 - - - - 4 864 Sweden **[14]** 142,207 - 142,207 _-_ 56,135 - - - 27,167 - 225,509 Switzerland 69,390 - 69,390 _-_ 17,085 - - - 76 - 86,551 Syrian Arab Rep. **[30]** 149,200 - 149,200 _26,527_ 4,839 - 7,632,500 - 160,000 - 7,946,539 Tajikistan **[31]** 1,782 - 1,782 _1,350_ 79 - - - 10,051 31 11,943 Thailand **[32]** 56,947 53,425 110,372 _110,372_ 8,166 - - - 506,197 521 625,256 The former Yugoslav Republic 584 244 828 _828_ 43 - - - 717 - 1,588 of Macedonia Timor-Leste - - - _-_ - - - - - 5 5 Togo 21,877 - 21,877 _13,414_ 687 - - - - - 22,564 Tonga - - - _-_ - - - - - - Trinidad and Tobago 121 - 121 _121_ 59 - - - - - 180 Tunisia 824 - 824 _822_ 156 - - - - 3 983 Turkey **[33]** 1,838,848 - 1,838,848 _1,838,848_ 145,335 - - - 780 306 1,985,269 Turkmenistan 27 - 27 _27_ - - - - 7,144 - 7,171 Turcs and 4 - 4 _4_ 4 - - - - - 8 Caicos Islands Uganda 428,397 - 428,397 _428,397_ 38,068 - - - - 180,000 646,465 Ukraine 3,232 - 3,232 _459_ 6,169 - 1,382,000 - 35,179 - 1,426,580 United Arab 424 - 424 _424_ 378 - - - - - 802 Emirates United Kingdom **[14]** 117,234 - 117,234 _-_ 37,829 - - - 16 - 155,079 United Rep. of 159,014 - 159,014 _136,787_ 1,150 - - - - 168,019 328,183 Tanzania United States of 267,222 - 267,222 _-_ 224,508 - - - - - 491,730 America **[34]** Uruguay 289 - 289 _73_ 68 - - - - - 357 Uzbekistan **[35]** 118 - 118 _118_ - - - - 86,703 - 86,821 Vanuatu - - - _-_ 1 - - - - - 1 ... /...

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annex TABLE 1

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by country/territory of asylum **
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** Of whom assisted by UNHCR Returned refugees **[5]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Country/ territory of asylum **[1]** People in and people in Of whom seekers UNHCR, incl. UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like assisted by (pending Returned people in IDP- Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations UNHCR cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDPlike situations **[6]** Returned IDPs **[7]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** Venezuela (Bolivarian 5,647 168,544 174,191 _34,164_ 704 - - - - - 174,895 Republic of) Viet Nam - - - _-_ - - - - 11,000 - 11,000 Yemen 263,047 - 263,047 _118,338_ 9,902 - 1,267,590 - - - 1,540,539 Zambia 25,737 - 25,737 _25,737_ 2,606 - - - - 23,415 51,758 Zimbabwe **[36]** 6,085 - 6,085 _6,085_ 123 10 - - 300,000 1,873 308,091
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

UNHCR-Bureaux ~~- Central Africa-~~ 865,112 13,741 878,853 _814,818_ 18,623 6,658 2,021,269 332,666 1,302 320,810 3,580,181 Great Lakes ~~- East and Horn~~ 2,713,748 33,553 2,747,301 _2,659,372_ 108,016 24,134 5,119,463 198,635 20,000 233,726 8,451,275 of Africa

- Southern Africa 179,837 - 179,837 _58,541_ 860,500 2,902 - - 300,000 26,978 1,370,217

- Western Africa 258,893 - 258,893 _249,033_ 9,298 820 1,549,516 164,714 700,116 71,536 2,754,893
Total Africa 4,017,590 47,294 4,064,884 _3,781,764_ 996,437 34,514 8,690,248 696,015 1,021,418 653,050 16,156,566 Asia and Pacific 3,506,644 278,350 3,784,994 _3,044,957_ 133,894 46,390 2,965,211 679,794 1,801,802 282,450 9,694,535 Middle East and 2,941,121 64,166 3,005,287 _2,674,746_ 109,847 3,321 13,297,101 716 374,309 5,845 16,796,426 North Africa Europe 3,475,270 14,261 3,489,531 _1,887,484_ 827,374 116 2,574,886 159 610,532 82,983 7,585,581 Americas 501,049 251,888 752,937 _93,940_ 276,367 24 6,520,270 - 136,413 40,583 7,726,594
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

UN major regions Africa 4,419,845 73,294 4,493,139 _4,180,012_ 1,044,031 34,514 9,125,117 696,015 1,021,439 653,053 17,067,308 Asia 7,853,396 324,984 8,178,380 _7,170,600_ 320,437 49,711 16,715,602 680,510 2,181,486 294,598 28,420,724 Europe 1,625,002 1,212 1,626,214 _38,323_ 678,737 116 1,686,727 159 605,136 76,677 4,673,766 Latin America and 84,664 251,888 336,552 _93,940_ 37,378 24 6,520,270 - 136,413 40,583 7,071,220 the Caribbean Northern America 416,385 - 416,385 _-_ 238,989 - - - - - 655,374 Oceania 42,382 4,581 46,963 _16_ 24,347 - - - - - 71,310
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

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**Notes**
The data are generally provided by Governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection.
A dash (“-”) indicates that the value is zero, not available or not applicable.

**1** Country or territory of asylum or residence.

**2** Persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU
Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection. In the absence of Government figures, UNHCR has estimated the refugee population in many industrialized countries based on 10 years of individual asylum-seeker recognition.

**3** This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are outside their
country or territory of origin and who face protection risks similar to those of refugees, but for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained.

**4** Persons whose application for asylum or refugee status is pending at any stage in the asylum
procedure.

**5** Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during the first half of 2015. Source:
country of origin and asylum.

**6** Persons who are displaced within their country and to whom UNHCR extends protection
and/or assistance. It also includes people in IDP-like situations. This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are inside their country of nationality or habitual residence and who face protection risks similar to those of IDPs but who, for practical or other reasons, could not be reported as such.

**7** IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR who have returned to their place of origin during the first
half of 2015.

**8** Refers to persons who are not considered as nationals by any State under the operation
of its law. This category refers to persons who fall under the agency’s statelessness mandate because they are stateless according to this international definition, but data from some countries may also include persons with undetermined nationality.

**9** Refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of the other groups but to
whom UNHCR may extend its protection and/or assistance services. These activities might be based on humanitarian or other special grounds.

**10** According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in
the Tindouf camps.

**11** Australia’s figures for asylum-seekers are based on the number of applications lodged for
protection visas. Refugee figure refers to the end of 2014.

**12** All figures relate to the end of 2014.

**13** The refugee population includes 200,000 persons originating from Myanmar in a refugeelike situation. The Government of Bangladesh estimates the population to be between
300,000 and 500,000.

**14** Refugee population relates to the end of 2014.

**15** The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection
from the Government of China.

**16** UNHCR’s assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information.

**17** The number of Rwandan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is subject to
change based on a registration exercise carried out in 2014 that resulted in a figure of 243,000 identified Rwandans, as well as a biometric registration exercise. UNOCHA revised the IDP figure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from more than 2.7 million at the end of 2014 to 1.5 million at mid-2015.

**18** A previous estimate of 210,000 individuals was based on a national survey released by the
National Bureau for Statistics in 2013 concerning individuals born in the country to foreign parents. According to official information released by the Dominican Government in 2015, this estimate actually included a significant number of individuals born in the country to a Dominican-born parent (i.e., a parent who may be a Dominican national). The revised estimate includes only individuals born in the country where both parents were born abroad. This estimate does not include subsequent generations of individuals of foreign descent, as there is no reliable population data available concerning those other than first generation individuals, and as such it does not include all persons without nationality. Finally, it should be noted that the revised estimate will be adjusted as official data becomes available on the number of individuals who have found an effective nationality solution under Law 169-14.

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**19** Almost all people recorded as being stateless have permanent residence and enjoy more
rights than foreseen in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

**20** Pending a more accurate study into statelessness in Iraq, the estimate of stateless persons
in Iraq has been adjusted to reflect the reduction of statelessness in line with Law 26 of 2006, which allows stateless persons to apply for nationality in certain circumstances.

**21** Figures are UNHCR estimates.

**22** Includes 32,800 Iraqi refugees registered with UNHCR in Jordan. The Government estimated
the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This included refugees and other categories of Iraqis.

**23** The figure of stateless persons includes persons covered by two separate Laws. 180 fall
under the Republic of Latvia’s Law on Stateless Persons on 17 February 2004, which replaced the Law on the Status of Stateless Persons in the Republic of Latvia of 18 February 1999, and which determines the legal status of persons who are not considered as citizens by the legislation of any State and whose status is not determined by the 25th April 1995 Law (quoted below). 262,622 of the persons reported in this table fall under the Republic of Latvia’s 25 April 1995 Law on the Status of Those Former USSR Citizens who are not Citizens of Latvia or of Any Other State, and are granted a transitional legal status to permanently residing persons (non-citizens) entitling them to a set of rights and obligations beyond the minimum rights prescribed by the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. According to the Latvian authorities, “Non-citizens of Latvia is the only category of residents who are not Latvian citizens, but who enjoy the right to reside in Latvia ex lege (all others require a resident permit) and an immediate right to acquire citizenship through registration and/or naturalisation (depending on age).”

**24** This figure is an estimate of persons without any citizenship in Rakhine state derived from
the 2014 census. It does not include an estimated 175,000 IDPs, persons in an IDP-like situation and IDP returnees who are also of concern under the statelessness mandate because they are already included among the IDP figure.

**25** Various studies estimate that a large number of individuals lack citizenship certificates
in Nepal. While these individuals are not all necessarily stateless, UNHCR has been working closely with the Government of Nepal and partners to address this situation.

**26** Stateless persons refers to census figure from 2010 adjusted to reflect the number of
people who acquired nationality in 2011-2014.

**27** IDP figure in South Sudan includes 105,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation.

**28** The statistics of the remaining IDPs as at mid-2015, while provided by the Government
authorities at the district level, are being reviewed by the central authorities. Once this review has been concluded, the statistics will be changed accordingly.

**29** IDP figure in Sudan includes 77,300 people who are in an IDP-like situation.

**30** Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic is a Government estimate. UNHCR has
registered and is assisting 23,500 Iraqis at mid-2015.

**31** Figure refers to a registration exercise in three regions and 637 persons registered as
stateless by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan.

**32** Figure of stateless persons in Thailand refers to 2011.

**33** Refugee figure for Syrians in Turkey is a Government estimate.

**34** The refugee figure for the United States of America is currently under review, which may
lead to an adjustment in future reports. Refugee figure relates to the end of 2014.

**35** Figure of stateless persons refers to those with permanent residence reported in 2010 by
the Government. Information on other categories of stateless persons is not available.

**36** The figure is an estimate and currently under review.
Source: UNHCR/Governments.

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annex TABLE 2 Origin **[1]**

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by origin**
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Returned IDPs **[7]** of whom: UNHCRassisted Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** People in and people in of whom: seekers people in UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR- (pending Returned IDP-like Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations assisted cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** situations **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Returned refugees **[5]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDP-like situations **[6]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** Afghanistan 2,632,534 - 2,632,534 _2,514,874_ 106,972 46,148 947,872 300 - 201,315 3,935,141 Albania 10,463 - 10,463 _6_ 34,550 - - - - - 45,013 Algeria 3,541 - 3,541 _68_ 6,259 - - - - 18 9,818 Andorra 7 - 7 _-_ 1 - - - - - 8 Angola 9,550 - 9,550 _1,122_ 2,226 2,887 - - - 62,413 77,076 Anguilla 1 - 1 _-_ - - - - - - 1 Antigua and Barbuda 53 - 53 _-_ 16 - - - - - 69 Argentina 312 - 312 _3_ 131 - - - - - 443 Armenia 11,891 - 11,891 _72_ 6,834 - - - - 12 18,737 Australia 18 - 18 _-_ 9 - - - - - 27 Austria 9 - 9 _-_ 12 - - - - - 21 Azerbaijan 10,579 - 10,579 _1,590_ 4,845 - 622,892 - - 1 638,317 Bahamas 215 - 215 _-_ 58 - - - - - 273 Bahrain 373 - 373 _17_ 107 - - - - 7 487 Bangladesh 11,108 1 11,109 _212_ 28,150 - - - - 12 39,271 Barbados 86 - 86 _-_ 32 - - - - - 118 Belarus 4,299 - 4,299 _16_ 1,108 - - - - 1 5,408 Belgium 76 - 76 _-_ 14 - - - - - 90 Belize 45 - 45 _-_ 38 - - - - - 83 Benin 352 - 352 _1_ 873 - - - - - 1,225 Bermuda - - - _-_ 3 - - - - - 3 Bhutan 21,392 - 21,392 _20,818_ 194 - - - - - 21,586 Bolivia 593 - 593 _11_ 291 - - - - - 884 (Plurinational State of) Bosnia and 19,587 41 19,628 _3,111_ 6,284 19 84,500 - - 52,438 162,869 Herzegovina Botswana 236 - 236 _-_ 116 - - - - - 352 Brazil 971 - 971 _5_ 1,472 - - - - - 2,443 British Virgin Islands - - - _-_ - - - - - - Brunei Darussalam 1 - 1 _-_ 1 - - - - - 2 Bulgaria 1,631 - 1,631 _2_ 248 - - - - 1 1,880 Burkina Faso 1,862 - 1,862 _21_ 2,049 - - - - 1 3,912 Burundi 217,360 - 217,360 _185,057_ 24,157 11 78,948 - - 163,497 483,973 Cabo Verde 27 - 27 _-_ 90 - - - - - 117 Cambodia 12,939 9 12,948 _174_ 272 - - - - - 13,220 Cameroon 10,854 - 10,854 _406_ 6,116 - 81,693 - - 4 98,667 Canada 87 - 87 _1_ 67 - - - - 6 160 Cayman Islands 6 - 6 _-_ - - - - - - 6 Central African Rep. 469,314 1,254 470,568 _468,913_ 10,157 1,220 368,859 138,825 - 15,049 1,004,678 Chad 14,809 33,553 48,362 _12,511_ 3,275 - - - - 35,000 86,637 Chile 604 - 604 _11_ 87 - - - - - 691 China 210,815 - 210,815 _295_ 52,598 - - - - 1 263,414 China, Hong Kong SAR 25 - 25 _-_ 33 - - - - - 58 China, Macao SAR 5 - 5 _-_ 20 - - - - - 25 Colombia 95,237 250,888 346,125 _89,223_ 6,030 22 6,520,270 - - - 6,872,447 Comoros 562 - 562 _1_ 377 - - - - - 939 Congo, Republic of 14,745 - 14,745 _2,024_ 4,079 1 - - - 78 18,903 Cook Islands 1 - 1 _-_ - - - - - - 1 Costa Rica 418 - 418 _2_ 155 - - - - - 573 Côte d’Ivoire 72,158 - 72,158 _59,583_ 14,396 74 24,000 - - 41 110,669 Croatia **[10]** 33,669 - 33,669 _12,021_ 460 24 - - - 13,774 47,927 Cuba 6,058 1,000 7,058 _726_ 1,760 - - - - 130 8,948 Curaçao 35 - 35 _-_ - - - - - - 35 Cyprus **[11]** 6 - 6 _-_ 6 - - - - - 12 Czech Rep. 1,311 - 1,311 _-_ 162 - - - - - 1,473 Dem. People’s Rep.
1,079 - 1,079 _70_ 294 - - - - - 1,373 of Korea Dem. Rep. of 535,115 208 535,323 _464,691_ 75,350 3,230 1,491,769 193,841 - 116,289 2,415,802 the Congo Denmark 11 - 11 _-_ 7 - - - - - 18 Djibouti 921 - 921 _85_ 494 - - - - 31 1,446 Dominica 38 - 38 _-_ 25 - - - - - 63 Dominican Rep. 358 - 358 _11_ 1,439 - - - - - 1,797 Ecuador 807 - 807 _19_ 6,330 - - - - - 7,137 Egypt 16,105 - 16,105 _267_ 10,415 - - - - 48 26,568 El Salvador 11,120 - 11,120 _385_ 21,885 - - - - 24 33,029 Equatorial Guinea 173 - 173 _13_ 104 - - - - - 277 Eritrea 352,309 31,560 383,869 _233,050_ 60,157 1 - - - 64 444,091 ... /...

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annex TABLE 2 Origin **[1]**

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by origin**
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Returned IDPs **[7]** of whom: UNHCRassisted Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** People in and people in of whom: seekers people in UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR- (pending Returned IDP-like Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations assisted cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** situations **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Returned refugees **[5]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDP-like situations **[6]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** Estonia 340 - 340 _1_ 39 - - - - - 379 Ethiopia 88,149 - 88,149 _42,844_ 72,278 2 - - - 367 160,796 Fiji 924 - 924 _6_ 732 - - - - - 1,656 Finland 7 - 7 _-_ 7 - - - - - 14 France 93 - 93 _-_ 62 - - - - - 155 Gabon 173 - 173 _3_ 173 - - - - - 346 Gambia 5,136 - 5,136 _58_ 11,899 - - - - - 17,035 Georgia 6,719 - 6,719 _541_ 7,759 - 265,267 - - - 279,745 Germany 174 - 174 _2_ 87 - - - - 2 263 Ghana 22,182 - 22,182 _10,040_ 9,883 - - - - 2 32,067 Gibraltar 2 - 2 _-_ - - - - - - 2 Greece 112 - 112 _-_ 84 - - - - - 196 Grenada 324 - 324 _-_ 51 - - - - - 375 Guadeloupe - - - _-_ - - - - - - Guatemala 7,467 - 7,467 _52_ 19,587 - - - - 5 27,059 Guinea 16,009 - 16,009 _185_ 17,496 - - - - - 33,505 Guinea-Bissau 1,321 - 1,321 _16_ 2,117 - - - - - 3,438 Guyana 703 - 703 _-_ 198 - - - - - 901 Haiti 37,092 - 37,092 _689_ 7,933 - - - - 40,336 85,361 Holy See (the) - - - _-_ - - - - - - Honduras 4,312 - 4,312 _187_ 13,678 - - - - 26 18,016 Hungary 1,303 - 1,303 _2_ 1,645 - - - - 3 2,951 Iceland 1 - 1 _-_ 4 - - - - - 5 India 10,359 - 10,359 _14_ 22,414 - - - - 363 33,136 Indonesia 9,690 4,739 14,429 _788_ 2,529 - - - - 3 16,961 Iran (Islamic Rep. of) 83,507 - 83,507 _16,180_ 39,876 8 - - - 22 123,413 Iraq **[12]** 377,747 - 377,747 _127,650_ 141,913 3,318 3,962,142 716 - 45 4,485,881 Ireland 10 - 10 _-_ 50 - - - - - 60 Israel 962 - 962 _-_ 356 - - - - - 1,318 Italy 68 - 68 _1_ 137 - - - - - 205 Jamaica 1,696 - 1,696 _13_ 570 - - - - - 2,266 Japan 190 - 190 _-_ 79 - - - - - 269 Jordan 1,767 - 1,767 _114_ 1,539 - - - - 114 3,420 Kazakhstan 2,242 - 2,242 _16_ 1,187 - - - - - 3,429 Kenya 7,474 - 7,474 _2,974_ 3,278 1,231 - - - 3 11,986 Kiribati 3 - 3 _-_ 1 - - - - - 4 Kuwait 978 - 978 _31_ 248 - - - - - 1,226 Kyrgyzstan 2,423 - 2,423 _259_ 1,988 - - - - - 4,411 Lao People’s Dem. Rep. 7,420 - 7,420 _3_ 123 - - - - - 7,543 Latvia 215 - 215 _4_ 90 - - - - - 305 Lebanon 4,329 - 4,329 _111_ 4,270 - - - - - 8,599 Lesotho 17 - 17 _-_ 969 - - - - - 986 Liberia 13,543 27 13,570 _8,882_ 2,355 6 - - - 9 15,940 Libya 4,317 - 4,317 _53_ 5,219 - 434,869 - - 7 444,412 Liechtenstein - - - _-_ - - - - - - Lithuania 186 - 186 _2_ 82 - - - - - 268 Luxembourg 2 - 2 _-_ 1 - - - - - 3 Madagascar 286 - 286 _2_ 183 - - - - 5 474 Malawi 363 - 363 _4_ 5,368 - - - - - 5,731 Malaysia 467 - 467 _-_ 1,958 - - - - - 2,425 Maldives 34 - 34 _3_ 10 - - - - - 44 Mali 146,667 - 146,667 _135,554_ 10,919 740 90,218 41,995 - - 290,539 Malta 5 - 5 _-_ - - - - - - 5 Marshall Islands 3 - 3 _-_ 6 - - - - - 9 Mauritania 34,121 - 34,121 _26,591_ 7,134 - - - - 4 41,259 Mauritius 93 - 93 _-_ 190 - - - - - 283 Mexico 10,664 - 10,664 _16_ 35,276 - - - - - 45,940 Monaco 3 - 3 _-_ - - - - - - 3 Mongolia 2,177 - 2,177 _-_ 2,622 - - - - - 4,799 Montenegro 615 - 615 _4_ 2,745 - - - - - 3,360 Morocco 1,559 - 1,559 _46_ 3,860 - - - - 15 5,434 Mozambique 59 - 59 _6_ 2,049 - - - - 2 2,110 Myanmar **[13]** 204,949 253,432 458,381 _250,241_ 55,639 1 368,500 8,000 - 526 891,047 Namibia 1,185 - 1,185 _912_ 147 5 - - - 13 1,350 Nepal 8,562 2 8,564 _30_ 6,605 - - - - - 15,169 Netherlands 64 - 64 _-_ 48 - - - - 1 113 ... /...

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annex TABLE 2 Origin **[1]**

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by origin**
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Returned IDPs **[7]** of whom: UNHCRassisted Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** People in and people in of whom: seekers people in UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR- (pending Returned IDP-like Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations assisted cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** situations **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Returned refugees **[5]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDP-like situations **[6]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** New Zealand 16 - 16 _-_ 19 - - - - 1 36 Nicaragua 1,434 - 1,434 _502_ 863 2 - - - - 2,299 Niger 1,172 - 1,172 _438_ 733 - 50,000 - - 70,000 121,905 Nigeria 107,816 12,487 120,303 _89,803_ 40,640 - 1,385,298 122,719 - 13 1,668,973 Niue 18 - 18 _-_ - - - - - - 18 Norfolk Island 1 - 1 _-_ - - - - - - 1 Norway 13 - 13 _-_ 3 - - - - - 16 Oman 31 - 31 _4_ 23 - - - - - 54 Pakistan 241,973 20,163 262,136 _228,023_ 52,409 2 1,556,400 336,606 - 2 2,207,555 Palau 1 - 1 _-_ 2 - - - - - 3 Palestinian **[14]** 97,241 - 97,241 _87,473_ 3,923 3 - - - 3,241 104,408 Panama 72 - 72 _3_ 52 - - - - - 124 Papua New Guinea 288 - 288 _-_ 251 - - - - - 539 Paraguay 94 - 94 _1_ 61 - - - - - 155 Peru 4,129 - 4,129 _196_ 1,202 - - - - - 5,331 Philippines 668 1 669 _18_ 1,540 - 42,171 334,888 - 80,055 459,323 Poland 1,401 - 1,401 _4_ 340 - - - - - 1,741 Portugal 31 - 31 _1_ 49 - - - - - 80 Qatar 21 - 21 _-_ 9 - - - - - 30 Rep. of Korea 483 - 483 _-_ 316 - - - - - 799 Rep. of Moldova 2,242 - 2,242 _26_ 2,348 - - - - 1 4,591 Romania 1,929 - 1,929 _3_ 1,274 - - - - 2 3,205 Russian Federation 71,497 - 71,497 _961_ 23,605 - - - - 310 95,412 Rwanda **[15]** 76,898 - 76,898 _38,166_ 10,541 2,196 - - - 5,292 94,927 Saint Kitts and Nevis 23 - 23 _-_ 19 - - - - - 42 Saint Lucia 922 - 922 _-_ 217 - - - - - 1,139 Saint-Pierre
-                      -                      - _-_ 1                      -                      -                      -                      -                      - 1
et-Miquelon Saint Vincent and 1,736 - 1,736 _-_ 170 - - - - - 1,906 the Grenadines Samoa 1 - 1 _-_ 483 - - - - - 484 San Marino 1 - 1 _-_ 1 - - - - - 2 Sao Tome and Principe 22 - 22 _19_ 8 - - - - - 30 Saudi Arabia 629 - 629 _20_ 483 - - - - 15 1,127 Senegal 23,404 - 23,404 _19,928_ 11,599 - - - - - 35,003 Serbia and Kosovo 44,648 244 44,892 _6,660_ 55,253 73 220,227 159 - - 320,604 (S/RES/1244 (1999)) Seychelles 25 - 25 _-_ 16 - - - - - 41 Sierra Leone 4,962 - 4,962 _816_ 3,377 - - - - 1,479 9,818 Singapore 59 - 59 _-_ 34 - - - - - 93 Sint Maarten

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Slovakia 305 - 305 _-_ 498 - - - - - 803 Slovenia 24 - 24 _-_ 22 - - - - - 46 Solomon Islands 70 - 70 _1_ 30 - - - - - 100 Somalia 1,105,460 158 1,105,618 _826,556_ 49,990 19,004 1,133,000 - - 74 2,307,686 South Africa 426 - 426 _6_ 840 - - - - - 1,266 South Sudan **[16]** 744,034 68 744,102 _720,660_ 3,885 - 1,643,484 148,530 - 12 2,540,013 Spain 60 - 60 _4_ 87 - - - - - 147 Sri Lanka **[17]** 122,533 - 122,533 _2,234_ 15,504 231 50,268 - - 15 188,551 Sudan **[18]** 634,612 6,307 640,919 _620,493_ 40,109 3,896 2,342,979 50,105 - 6 3,078,014 Suriname 17 - 17 _-_ 48 - - - - - 65 Swaziland 162 - 162 _3_ 170 - - - - 3 335 Sweden 18 - 18 _-_ 10 - - - - - 28 Switzerland 17 - 17 _-_ 3 - - - - - 20 Syrian Arab Rep. 4,180,920 13,634 4,194,554 _4,023,972_ 90,751 - 7,632,500 - - 8,001 11,925,806 Tajikistan 741 - 741 _70_ 1,021 - - - - - 1,762 The former Yugoslav 1,813 - 1,813 _5_ 9,780 - - - - - 11,593 Republic of Macedonia Thailand 225 2 227 _15_ 682 - - - - - 909 Tibetan 15,069 - 15,069 _3_ 10 - - - - 46 15,125 Timor-Leste 13 - 13 _1_ 4 - - - - - 17 Togo 9,226 - 9,226 _3,128_ 1,874 - - - - - 11,100 Tonga 22 - 22 _-_ 78 - - - - - 100 Trinidad and Tobago 371 - 371 _-_ 172 - - - - - 543 Tunisia 1,484 - 1,484 _44_ 2,052 - - - - 11 3,547 Turkey 63,004 - 63,004 _16,761_ 10,302 - - - - 15 73,321 Turkmenistan 498 - 498 _28_ 1,021 - - - - - 1,519 ... /...

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annex TABLE 2 Origin **[1]**

**Refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs),**
**stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR by origin**
| mid-2015 (or latest available estimates) (ctnd)
All data are provisional and subject to change.

REFUGEES Returned IDPs **[7]** of whom: UNHCRassisted Others of concern to UNHCR **[9]** People in and people in of whom: seekers people in UNHCR’s Others of Total refugee-like refugee-like UNHCR- (pending Returned IDP-like Returned statelessness concern to population Refugees **[2]** situations **[3]** situations assisted cases) **[4]** refugees **[5]** situations **[6]** IDPs **[7]** mandate **[8]** UNHCR **[9]** of concern People in refugee-like situations **[3]** Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations Asylumseekers (pending cases) **[4]** Returned refugees **[5]** IDPs protected/ assisted by UNHCR, incl.
people in IDP-like situations **[6]** Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate **[8]** Turks and 15 - 15 _-_ 3 - - - - - 18 Caicos Islands Tuvalu 2 - 2 _-_ 1 - - - - - 3 Uganda 7,185 - 7,185 _916_ 6,123 - - - - 180,000 193,308 Ukraine 318,606 180 318,786 _933_ 20,754 - 1,382,000 - - 5 1,721,545 United Arab Emirates 93 - 93 _5_ 90 - - - - - 183 United Kingdom 141 - 141 _2_ 114 - - - - - 255 United Rep.
859 - 859 _98_ 1,395 - - - - - 2,254 of Tanzania United States 4,949 - 4,949 _13_ 235 - - - - 16 5,200 of America **[19]** Uruguay 125 - 125 _1_ 57 - - - - - 182 Uzbekistan 4,762 - 4,762 _311_ 2,293 - - - - 2 7,057 Vanuatu 1 - 1 _-_ - - - - - - 1 Venezuela 7,954 - 7,954 _195_ 7,420 - - - - 2 15,376 (Bolivarian Rep. of) Viet Nam **[20]** 313,332 1 313,333 _231_ 4,745 - - - - 198 318,276 Wallis and

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Futuna Islands Western Sahara **[21]** 90,538 26,000 116,538 _90,116_ 1,100 - - - - - 117,638 Yemen 5,832 - 5,832 _3,619_ 5,618 - 1,267,590 - - 14 1,279,054 Zambia 318 - 318 _12_ 414 - - - - - 732 Zimbabwe 22,210 - 22,210 _1,352_ 52,992 10 - - - 121 75,333 Stateless 30,196 - 30,196 _955_ 10,082 - - - 3,944,474 - 3,984,752 Various/unknown 113,101 - 113,101 _465_ 756,240 - - - - 13,831 883,172
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

UNHCR-Bureaux

- Central Africa1,325,513 1,462 1,326,975 _1,159,390_ 132,080 6,658 2,021,269 332,666                - 300,209 4,119,857
Great Lakes

- East and Horn
2,954,953 71,646 3,026,599 _2,460,089_ 239,589 24,134 5,119,463 198,635 - 215,557 8,823,977 of Africa

- Southern Africa 35,492 - 35,492 _3,420_ 66,057 2,902 - - - 62,557 167,008

- Western Africa 425,837 12,514 438,351 _328,453_ 130,300 820 1,549,516 164,714 - 71,545 2,355,246
Total Africa 4,741,795 85,622 4,827,417 _3,951,352_ 568,026 34,514 8,690,248 696,015 - 649,868 15,466,088 Asia and Pacific 3,923,643 278,350 4,201,993 _3,034,918_ 404,755 46,390 2,965,211 679,794 - 282,561 8,580,704 Middle East and North 4,822,588 39,634 4,862,222 _4,360,201_ 285,369 3,321 13,297,101 716 - 11,540 18,460,269 Africa Europe 609,208 465 609,673 _42,735_ 191,816 116 2,574,886 159 - 66,566 3,443,216 Americas 201,143 251,888 453,031 _92,265_ 127,631 24 6,520,270 - - 40,545 7,141,501 Various/Stateless 143,297 - 143,297 _1,420_ 766,322 - - - 3,944,474 13,831 4,867,924
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

UN major regions Africa 4,893,460 111,622 5,005,082 _4,068,537_ 604,065 34,514 9,125,117 696,015 - 649,971 16,114,764 Asia 8,685,396 291,984 8,977,380 _7,296,891_ 682,219 49,711 16,715,602 680,510 - 294,025 27,399,447 Europe 517,009 465 517,474 _23,771_ 162,068 116 1,686,727 159 - 66,538 2,433,082 Latin America and 196,107 251,888 447,995 _92,251_ 127,326 24 6,520,270 - - 40,523 7,136,138 the Caribbean Northern America 5,036 - 5,036 _14_ 306 - - - - 22 5,364 Oceania 1,369 - 1,369 _7_ 1,613 - - - - 1 2,983 Various/Stateless 143,297 - 143,297 _1,420_ 766,322 - - - 3,944,474 13,831 4,867,924
**Total** **14,441,674** **655,959** **15,097,633** **11,482,891** **2,343,919** **84,365** **34,047,716** **1,376,684** **3,944,474** **1,064,911** **57,959,702**

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**Notes**
The data are generally provided by Governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection.
A dash (“-”) indicates that the value is zero, not available or not applicable.

**1** Country or territory of origin.

**2** Persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU
Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection. In the absence of Government figures, UNHCR has estimated the refugee population in many industrialized countries based on 10 years of individual asylum-seeker recognition.

**3** This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are outside their
country or territory of origin and who face protection risks similar to those of refugees, but for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained.

**4** Persons whose application for asylum or refugee status is pending at any stage in the asylum
procedure.

**5** Refugees who have returned to their place of origin during the first half of 2015. Source:
country of origin and asylum.

**6** Persons who are displaced within their country and to whom UNHCR extends protection
and/or assistance. It also includes people in IDP-like situations. This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are inside their country of nationality or habitual residence and who face protection risks similar to those of IDPs but who, for practical or other reasons, could not be reported as such.

**7** IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR who have returned to their place of origin during the first
half of 2015.

**8** Refers to persons who are not considered as nationals by any State under the operation
of its law. This category refers to persons who fall under the agency’s statelessness mandate because they are stateless according to this international definition, but data from some countries may also include persons with undetermined nationality.

**9** Refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of the other groups but to
whom UNHCR may extend its protection and/or assistance services. These activities might be based on humanitarian or other special grounds.

**10** UNHCR has recommended on 4 April 2014 to start the process of cessation of refugee
status for refugees from Croatia displaced during the 1991-95 conflict. The Office suggests that cessation enters into effect latest by the end of 2017.

**11** UNHCR’s assistance activities for IDPs in Cyprus ended in 1999. Visit the website of the
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) for further information.

**12** Refugee figure for Iraqis in the Syrian Arab Republic is a Government estimate. UNHCR has
registered and is assisting 23,500 Iraqis at mid-2015. The refugee population in Jordan includes 32,800 Iraqis registered with UNHCR. The Government of Jordan estimated the number of Iraqis at 400,000 individuals at the end of March 2015. This included refugees and other categories of Iraqis.

**13** The figure of stateless persons refers to persons without citizenship in Rakhine State only
and does not include an estimated 170,000 IDPs and persons in an IDP-like situation who are included under the IDP population but who are not considered nationals. The total stateless population in Rakhine State is estimated to be approximately one million.

**14** Refers to Palestinian refugees under the UNHCR mandate only.

**15** The number of Rwandan refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is subject to
change based on a registration exercise carried out in 2014 that resulted in a figure of 243,000 identified Rwandans, as well as a biometric registration exercise.

**16** An unknown number of refugees and asylum-seekers from South Sudan may be included
under Sudan (in absence of separate statistics for both countries). IDP figure in South Sudan includes 105,000 people who are in an IDP-like situation.

**17** The statistics of the remaining IDPs as at mid-2015, while provided by the Government
authorities at the district level, are being reviewed by the central authorities. Once this review has been concluded, the statistics will be changed accordingly.

**18** Figures for refugees and asylum-seekers may include citizens of South Sudan (in absence of
separate statistics for both countries). IDP figure in Sudan includes 77,300 people who are in an IDP-like situation.

**19** A limited number of countries record refugee and asylum statistics by country of birth
rather than country of origin. This affects the number of refugees reported as originating from the United States of America.

**20** The 300,000 Vietnamese refugees are well integrated and in practice receive protection
from the Government of China.

**21** According to the Government of Algeria, there are an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees in
the Tindouf camps.
Source: UNHCR/Governments.

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**Annex tables 3 through 14**
**can be downloaded from**
**the UNHCR website at:**

[http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/mid2015stats.zip](http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/mid2015stats.zip)

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© 2015 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees All rights reserved. Reproductions and translations are authorized, provided UNHCR is acknowledged as the source.

For more information, please contact: Field Information and Coordination Support Section Division of Programme Support and Management Case Postale 2500 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[stats@unhcr.org](mailto:stats%40unhcr.org?subject=Global%20Trends%202012) This document along with further statistical information on global displacement is available on UNHCR’s website:
[http://www.unhcr.org/statistics](http://www.unhcr.org/statistics) Cover page: **This young Syrian refugee carries his little brother** across the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The number of refugees and migrants arriving by boat in Greece and travelling long distances over land to reach Western Europe is on the rise. Many face violence, extortion and robbery along the way.

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###### Who are included in UNHCR statistics?

Refugees include individuals recognized under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, those recognized in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, individuals granted complementary forms of protection, [(1)] and those enjoying temporary protection [(2)] . The refugee population also includes persons in refugee-like situations. [(3)] Asylum-seekers (with ‘pending cases’) are individuals who have sought international protection and whose claims for refugee status have not yet been determined. Those covered in this report refer to claimants whose individual applications were pending as at 30 June 2015, irrespective of when those claims may have been lodged.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are persons or groups of persons who have been forced to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or man-made disasters, and who have not crossed an international border. [(4)] For the purposes of UNHCR’s statistics, this population only includes conflict-generated IDPs to whom the Office extends protection and/or assistance. The IDP population also includes persons in an IDP-like situation. [(5)] Returned IDPs refers to those IDPs who were beneficiaries of UNHCR’s protection and assistance activities, and who returned to their area of origin or habitual residence between January and June 2015.
In practice, however, operations may assist IDP returnees for longer periods.

Returned refugees (returnees) are former refugees who have returned to their country of origin, either spontaneously or in an organized fashion, but are yet to be fully integrated. Such returns would normally take place only under conditions of safety and dignity.
For the purposes of this report, only refugees who returned between January and June 2015 are included, though in practice operations may assist returnees for longer periods.

Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate are defined under international law as those not considered as nationals by any State under the operation of its law. In other words, they do not possess the nationality of any State. UNHCR statistics refer to persons who fall under the agency’s statelessness mandate as those who are stateless according to this international definition, but data from some countries may also include persons with undetermined nationality.

UNHCR has been given a global mandate by the United Nations General Assembly to contribute to the prevention and reduction of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons. The agency also performs a specific function, under Article 11 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in receiving claims from persons who may benefit from the statelessness safeguards contained in that Convention, and in assisting them and the States concerned to resolve these claims.

Other groups or persons of concern refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of these groups but to whom UNHCR has extended its protection and/or assistance services, based on humanitarian or other special grounds.

**(1)** ‘Complementary protection’ refers to protection provided under national, regional, or international law to persons who do not qualify for protection under refugee law
instruments but are in need of international protection because they are at risk of serious harm.

**(2)** ‘Temporary protection’ refers to arrangements developed to offer protection of a temporary nature, either until the situation in the country of origin improves and allows
for a safe and dignified return or until individual refugee or complementary protection status determination can be carried out.

**(3)** This term is descriptive in nature. It includes groups of persons who are outside their country or territory of origin and who face protection risks similar to refugees but
for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained.

**(4)** See: United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Francis M. Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission
resolution 1997/39. Addendum: Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 11 February 1998.

**(5)** This term is descriptive in nature. It includes groups of persons who are inside their country of nationality or habitual residence and who face protection risks similar to
IDPs but who, for practical or other reasons, could not be reported as such.

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**Gender-Based Violence Sub-Working Group (GBV SWG)**

**In Response to Syrian Crisis, Humanitarian Setting**

**Gaziantep- Turkey**

**I.** **Background/Justification**

During conflicts and natural disasters, civilians are at significant risk of harm through violence, abuse or deliberate deprivation. Much of violence is hidden and goes underreported, particularly domestic violence or intimate partner violence, and GBV survivors may fear the repercussions of reporting incidents, such as forms of stigmatization that could jeopardize their future. Under-reporting of GBV makes it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain an accurate measurement of the magnitude of the problem. In emergency situations, often characterized by instability, insecurity, fear, dependence, loss of autonomy, the breakdown of law and order, and widespread disruption of community and family support systems, women may be even less likely to disclose incidents of GBV. Until there are services in place that GBV survivors can safely access there is little reason for them to put themselves at risk by disclosing their experience of GBV.

As of 18 May 2015, 259.788 Syrians reside in 25 camps in 10 cities and as of 4 May 2015, there are 1.759.846 registered Syrians in total in Turkey. Although Turkey has a system to respond gender-based violence (GBV) cases, it’s overloaded with the high number of Syrian population in the country. There is an increasing need for a sensitive, highly coordinated and systematic approach to handle GBV cases within the Turkey context. Therefore strong interagency coordination is needed to achieve the required multi-sectoral approach for an effective humanitarian response to GBV. UN agencies have been supportive with the government institutions on combating GBV and this support is planned to continue with the activities of GBV Sub-Group.

[Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and](http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/equality/03themes/violence-against-women/Conv_VAW_en.pdf)
[domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention that is one of the legally](http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/equality/03themes/violence-against-women/Conv_VAW_en.pdf) binding instrument for Turkey as one of the signatory countries, provides specific guidance for migration and asylum, integrating policies against multiple sectors and promoting international cooperation as written below:
**Article 60. “** 1. Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that
gender based violence against women may be recognized as a form of persecution within the meaning of Article 1, A (2), of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and as a form of serious harm giving rise to complementary/subsidiary protection.

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