World Refugee Day: Who Are the World’s Refugees and Do We Care?

Where Do the World’s Refugees Come From?

From the most troubled, most violent parts of the world. These are the top ten origin countries of the world’s refugees.

• Syria: 4.9 million
  
• Afghanistan: 2.7 million
  
• Somalia: 1.12 million
  
• South Sudan: 7,78,700
  
• Sudan: 6,28,800
  
• Democratic Republic of Congo: 5,41,500
  
• Central African Republic: 4,71,100
  
• Myanmar: 4,51,800
  
• Eritrea: 4,11,300
  
• Colombia: 3,40,200

Where Do the World’s Refugees Go?

• Turkey hosts 2.5 million refugees
  
• Pakistan: 1.6 million
  
• Lebanon: 1.1 million
  
• Iran: 9,79,400
  
• Ethiopia: 7,36,100
  
• Jordan: 6,64,100
  
• Kenya: 5,53,900
  
• Uganda: 4,77,200
  
• Democratic Republic of Congo: 3,83,100
• Chad: 3,69,500
  
• 
  

Just 10 countries host 58% of the world’s refugees. Half of these countries are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Four of these – Ethiopia, Uganda, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo – are Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

*Source: UNHCR Global Trends 2015

Video Editor: Prashant Bharadwaj