Lesson 4: Refugees and Children in Our World
Handout 3

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