Scattered Peoples

new internationalist
issue 223 - September 1991

Scattered peoples

The growing numbers of refugees are scattered worldwide.
These pages show the official UNHCR figures for 19901.
Actual numbers may well be much larger and are constantly changing.

Refugee population by region.

EUROPE
France	194,900
Germany (West)	150,700
Sweden	139,800
United Kingdom	100,000
Turkey	33,000
Denmark	33,000
Switzerland	29,300
Netherlands	27,200
Hungary	27,000
Belgium	25,500
Norway	18,500
Austria	18,200
Italy	11,450
Spain	8,700
Greece	7,500
Finland	2,000
Yugoslavia	950
Portugal	650

MIDDLE EAST²


Iran	2,850,000
Yemen	80,100
Lebanon	4,400

AFRICA
AFRICA
Malawi	822,500³
Sudan	767,700
Ethiopia	710,200
Somalia	600,000
Burundi	267,500
Tanzania	265,200
Zimbabwe	175,350
Algeria	169,100
Zambia	137,000
Uganda	129,960
Senegal	53,350
Cameroon	48,630
Swaziland	34,900
Rwanda	21,500
Mauritania	15,000
Angola	12,900
Kenya	12,400
Lesotho	4,200
Nigeria	3,800
Congo	3,400
Togo	3,400
Central African Republic	2,490
Egypt	1,700
Djibouti	1,450
Botswana	1,450
Benin	860

ASIA


Pakistan	3,275,700
China	280,500
Thailand	99,900
Hong Kong	49,500
Philippines	26,650
Vietnam	15,000
India	9,500
Japan	8,400

AUSTRALASIA
AUSTRALASIA
Australia	97,900
Malaysia	20,500
Papua New Guinea	7,700
Aotearoa (New Zealand)	4,700
Indonesia	4,500

NORTH AMERICA



United States of America	1,000,000
Canada	447,200

CENTRAL AMERICA
CENTRAL AMERICA
Mexico	356,400
Costa Rica	278,600
Honduras	237,100
Guatemala	223,100
Belize	30,100
El Salvador	20,300
Nicaragua	16,000
Cuba	4,000
Dominican Republic	3,350
Panama	1,500

SOUTH AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina	12,600
Brazil	5,300
Venezuela	2,200
Colombia	700
Peru	700

1 UNHCR, 1990 2 At the peak of the Gulf crisis over 1.5 million people crossed borders into neighbouring countries. Around 260,000 remain in Iran and 13,000 in Turkey. 3 There are now probably close to a million Mozambican refugees in Malawi. 4 Now over 6 million.