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ORIGIN OF MAJOR REFUGEE POPULATIONS IN 2001
[Ten largest groups1] Country of Origin 2 | Main Countries of Asylum | Total | Afghanistan | Pakistan / Iran | 3,809,600 | Burundi | Tanzania | 554,000 | Iraq | Iran | 530,100 | Sudan | Sudan Uganda / Ethiopia / D.R. Congo / Kenya / C.A.R. | 489,500 | Angola | Zambia / D.R. Congo / Namibia | 470,600 | Somalia | Kenya / Yemen / Ethiopia / USA / United Kingdom | 439,900 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Yugoslavia / USA / Sweden / Denmark / Netherlands | 426,000 | Democratic Rep. Congo | Tanzania / Congo / Zambia / Rwanda / Burundi | 392,100 | Viet Nam | China / USA | 353,200 | Eritrea | Sudan | 333,100 |
1 An estimated 3.9 million Palestinians who are covered by a separate mandate of the UN Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are not included in this report.
However, Palestinians outside the UNWRA area of operations such as those in Iraq or Libya, are
considered to be of concern to UNHCR. At year-end their number was 349,100.
2 This table includes UNHCR estimates for nationalities in industrialised countries on the basis of
recent refugee arrivals and asylum seeker recognition.
MAJOR REFUGEE ARRIVALS DURING 2001
Ten largest movements. Origin | Main Countries of Asylum | Total | Afghanistan | Pakistan | 199,900 | FYR Macedonia | Yugoslavia | 93,200 | Angola | Zambia / D.R. Congo | 44,800 | Sudan | Kenya / Ethiopia / Uganda / D.R. Congo | 35,000 | D.R. Congo | Tanzania / Zambia / Rwanda / Burundi | 32,700 | Central African Rep | D.R. Congo | 26,500 | Burundi | Tanzania / Zambia | 15,700 | Liberia | Côte d’Ivoire / Sierra Leone / Guinea | 11,700 | Rwanda | Uganda / Tanzania | 6,500 | Senegal | Gambia | 2,000 |
MAJOR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION MOVEMENTS
[in 2001, by destination, Ten largest movements] Origin | Main Countries of Asylum | Total | Sierra Leone | Guinea / Liberia | 92,300 | FYR Macedonia | Yugoslavia / Albania | 90,000 | Somalia | Ethiopia | 51,300 | Eritrea | Sudan | 32,700 | Burundi | Tanzania | 27,900 | Afghanistan | Iran / Pakistan | 26,100 | Yugoslavia | Germany / Bosnia-Herzegovina / FYR Macedonia | 25,600 | Rwanda | D.R. Congo / Tanzania | 21,700 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Yugoslavia / Croatia / Germany | 18,700 | East Timor | Indonesia | 18,200 |
ESTIMATES OF MAJOR POPULATIONS OF IDPs OF CONCERN TO UNHCR1
[at 1ST January 2002]2
Country | IDPs | Afghanistan | 1,200,000 | Colombia | 720,000 | Sri Lanka | 683,300 | Azerbaijan | 573,000 | Russian Federation | 443,300 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | 438,300 | Georgia | 264,200 | Yugoslavia | 263,600 | Angola | 202,000 | Liberia | 196,100 |
1 The figures included here do not necessarily represent the total number of IDPs in the countries concerned.
2 Groups over 100,000. Latest statistics available at http://www.unhcr.ch/
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