World Refugee Survey, 2001
Refugees in Africa: 3,346,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
ALGERIA |
Western Sahara, Palestinians |
85,000 |
|
ANGOLA |
Congo-Kinshasa |
12,000 |
|
BENIN |
Togo, Other |
4,000 |
|
BOTSWANA |
3,000 | |
|
BURUNDI |
Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda |
6,000 |
|
CAMEROON |
Chad, Congo-Kinshasa, Other |
45,000 |
|
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC |
Sudan, Congo-Kinshasa, Chad, Other |
54,000 |
|
CHAD |
Sudan |
20,000 |
|
CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE |
Congo-Kinshasa, Angola, Rwanda, Other |
126,000 |
|
CONGO-KINSHASA |
Angola, Sudan, Burundi, Uganda, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda |
276,000 |
|
CÔTE D’IVOIRE |
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Other |
94,000 |
|
DJIBOUTI |
Somalia, Ethiopia |
22,000 |
|
EGYPT |
Palestinians, Sudan, Somalia, Other |
57,000 |
|
ERITREA |
Somalia |
1,000 |
|
ETHIOPIA |
Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti |
194,000 |
|
GABON |
Congo-Brazzaville |
15,000 |
|
GAMBIA |
Sierra Leone, Senegal |
15,000 |
|
GHANA |
Liberia, Togo, Sierra Leone |
13,000 |
|
GUINEA |
Sierra Leone, Liberia |
390,000 |
|
GUINEA-BISSAU |
Senegal, Other |
6,000 |
|
KENYA |
Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Other |
233,000 |
|
LIBERIA |
Sierra Leone |
70,000 |
|
LIBYA |
Palestinians, Somalia |
11,000 |
|
MALI |
Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Other |
7,000 |
|
MAURITANIA |
Western Sahara |
25,000 |
|
MOZAMBIQUE |
2,000 | |
|
NAMIBIA |
Angola |
20,000 |
|
NIGER |
1,000 | |
|
NIGERIA |
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad |
10,000 |
|
RWANDA |
Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi |
29,000 |
|
SENEGAL |
Mauritania, Other |
41,000 |
|
SIERRA LEONE |
Liberia |
3,000 |
|
SOUTH AFRICA |
30,000 | |
|
SUDAN |
Eritrea, Etiopía, Chad, Uganda |
385,000 |
|
TANZANIA |
Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Somalia |
543,000 |
|
TOGO |
Ghana, Other |
11,000 |
|
UGANDA |
Sudan, Rwanda, Congo-Kinshasa, Somalia, Other |
230,000 |
|
ZAMBIA |
Angola, Congo-Kinshasa, Other |
255,000 |
|
ZIMBABWE |
2,000 | |
|
African Total |
3,346,000 |
Refugees in Europe: 1,153,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
ALBANIA |
Yugoslavia |
500 |
|
AUSTRIA |
6,100 | |
|
AZERBAIJAN |
Russian Federation, Afghanistan, Other |
3,600 |
|
BELARUS |
Afghanistan, Georgia, Other |
3,200 |
|
BELGIUM |
46,400 | |
|
BOSNIA & HERCEGOVINA |
Croatia, Yugoslavia |
38,200 |
|
BULGARIA |
3,000 | |
|
CROATIA |
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
22,500 |
|
CYPRUS |
300 | |
|
CZECH REPUBLIC |
4,800 | |
|
DENMARK |
10,300 | |
|
FINLAND |
2,600 | |
|
FRANCE |
26,200 | |
|
GEORGIA |
Russian Federation |
7,600 |
|
GERMANY |
Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Other |
180,000 |
|
GREECE |
800 | |
|
HUNGARY |
4,200 | |
|
ICELAND |
50 | |
|
IRELAND |
7,700 | |
|
ITALY |
13,700 | |
|
LITHUANIA |
150 | |
|
MACEDONIA |
Yugoslavia |
9,000 |
|
NETHERLANDS |
29,600 | |
|
NORWAY |
8,600 | |
|
POLAND |
2,300 | |
|
PORTUGAL |
Guinea-Bissau, Other |
1,600 |
|
ROMANIA |
2,100 | |
|
RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Georgia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Other |
36,200 |
|
SLOVAK REPUBLIC |
400 | |
|
SLOVENIA |
12,000 | |
|
SPAIN |
1,100 | |
|
SWEDEN |
Yugoslavia, Other |
18,500 |
|
SWITZERLAND |
Yugoslavia, Other |
62,600 |
|
TURKEY |
Iran, Iraq, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia, Russian Federation |
9,900 |
|
UKRAINE |
Georgia, Afghanistan, Other |
5,500 |
|
UNITED KINGDOM |
87,800 | |
|
YUGOSLAVIA |
Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Slovenia |
484,200 |
|
Europe Total |
1,153,000 |
Refugees in The Americas and the Caribbean: 562,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
ARGENTINA |
Peru, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Other |
1,000 |
|
BAHAMAS |
100 | |
|
BELIZE |
El Salvador, Other |
1,700 |
|
BRAZIL |
2,700 | |
|
CANADA |
54,400 | |
|
CHILE |
300 | |
|
COLOMBIA |
250 | |
|
COSTA RICA |
Nicaragua, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Other |
7,300 |
|
CUBA |
1,000 | |
|
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
Peru, Other |
500 |
|
ECUADOR |
1,600 | |
|
GUATEMALA |
Nicaragua, Other |
700 |
|
JAMAICA |
50 | |
|
MEXICO |
Guatemala, El Salvador, Other |
6,500 |
|
NICARAGUA |
300 | |
|
PANAMA |
Colombia, Other |
1,300 |
|
PERU |
750 | |
|
UNITED STATES |
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Other |
481,500 |
|
URUGUAY |
50 | |
|
VENEZUELA |
100 | |
|
The Americas and the Caribbean TOTAL |
562,000 |
Refugees in East Asia and the Pacific: 792,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
AUSTRALIA |
16,700 | |
|
CAMBODIA |
50 | |
|
CHINA |
Vietnam, North Korea, Other |
350,000 |
|
INDONESIA |
East Timor, Other |
120,800 |
|
JAPAN |
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Other |
3,800 |
|
MALAYSIA |
Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Other |
57,400 |
|
NEW ZEALAND |
3,100 | |
|
PAPUA NEW GUINEA |
Indonesia |
6,000 |
|
PHILIPPINES |
200 | |
|
SOUTH KOREA |
350 | |
|
THAILAND |
Burma, Other |
217,300 |
|
VIETNAM |
Cambodia |
16,000 |
|
East Asia and the Pacific Total |
792,000 |
Refugees in Middle East: 6,035,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
GAZA STRIP |
Palestinians |
824,600 |
|
IRAN |
Afghanistan, Iraq, Other |
1,895,000 |
|
IRAQ |
Palestinians, Iran, Turkey, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria |
127,700 |
|
ISRAEL |
Lebanon, Other |
4,700 |
|
JORDAN |
Palestinians, Other |
1,580,000 |
|
KUWAIT |
Palestinians, Iraq, Somalia |
52,000 |
|
LEBANON |
Palestinians, Other |
383,200 |
|
SAUDI ARABIA |
Palestinians, Iraq, Afghanistan, Other |
128,500 |
|
SYRIA |
Palestinians, Other |
389,000 |
|
WEST BANK |
Palestinians |
583,000 |
|
YEMEN |
Somalia, Palestinians, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Other |
67,600 |
|
Middle East Total |
6,035,000 |
Refugees in South and Central Asia: 2,656,000
|
"Host" Country |
Home Country of Refugees |
Number |
|
BANGLADESH |
Burma, Other |
121,600 |
|
INDIA |
China (Tibet), Sri Lanka, Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Other |
290,000 |
|
KAZAKHSTAN |
Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Other |
20,000 |
|
KYRGYZSTAN |
Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Russian Federation |
11,000 |
|
NEPAL |
Bhutan, China (Tibet) |
129,000 |
|
PAKISTAN |
Afghanistan, India, Other |
2,019,000 |
|
TAJIKISTAN |
12,400 | |
|
TURKMENISTAN |
Tajikistan, Afghanistan |
14,200 |
|
UZBEKISTAN |
Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Other |
38,400 |
|
South and Central Asia Total |
2,656,000 |
Source: U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants found at
http://www.refugees.org