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Overcoming barriers:
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Human Development Report 2009

DConflict and insecurity induced movement
Asylum seekers by country of origin (thousands)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway (.)
2 Australia (.)
3 Iceland ..
4 Canada 0.1
5 Ireland (.)
6 Netherlands (.)
7 Sweden (.)
8 France 0.1
9 Switzerland (.)
10 Japan (.)
11 Luxembourg ..
12 Finland ..
13 United States 1.1
14 Austria (.)
15 Spain (.)
16 Denmark (.)
17 Belgium (.)
18 Italy (.)
19 Liechtenstein ..
20 New Zealand (.)
21 United Kingdom (.)
22 Germany 0.1
23 Singapore (.)
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) (.)
25 Greece (.)
26 Korea (Republic of) 0.4
27 Israel 0.9
28 Andorra (.)
29 Slovenia (.)
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait 0.1
32 Cyprus (.)
33 Qatar (.)
34 Portugal (.)
35 United Arab Emirates (.)
36 Czech Republic 0.1
37 Barbados (.)
38 Malta (.)
39 Bahrain (.)
40 Estonia 0.1
41 Poland 0.2
42 Slovakia 0.1
43 Hungary 0.1
44 Chile 0.1
45 Croatia 0.1
46 Lithuania 0.1
47 Antigua and Barbuda ..
48 Latvia (.)
49 Argentina 0.1
50 Uruguay (.)
51 Cuba 1.1
52 Bahamas (.)
53 Mexico 14.8
54 Costa Rica 0.1
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 0.6
56 Oman (.)
57 Seychelles (.)
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1.8
59 Saudi Arabia (.)
60 Panama (.)
61 Bulgaria 0.4
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis (.)
63 Romania 0.6
64 Trinidad and Tobago 0.2
65 Montenegro 0.3
66 Malaysia 0.1
67 Serbia 14.2
68 Belarus 1.2
69 Saint Lucia 0.2
70 Albania 1.6
71 Russian Federation 17.6
72 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1.1
73 Dominica (.)
74 Grenada 0.1
75 Brazil 0.3
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.1
77 Colombia 43.1
78 Peru 3.1
79 Turkey 9.2
80 Ecuador 0.3
81 Mauritius (.)
82 Kazakhstan 0.5
83 Lebanon 2.6
84 Armenia 4.0
85 Ukraine 2.4
86 Azerbaijan 1.9
87 Thailand 0.4
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 10.4
89 Georgia 4.1
90 Dominican Republic 0.1
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.5
92 China 15.5
93 Belize (.)
94 Samoa (.)
95 Maldives (.)
96 Jordan 0.7
97 Suriname (.)
98 Tunisia 0.3
99 Tonga (.)
100 Jamaica 0.2
101 Paraguay (.)
102 Sri Lanka 6.0
103 Gabon (.)
104 Algeria 1.4
105 Philippines 0.8
106 El Salvador 18.6
107 Syrian Arab Republic 6.9
108 Fiji 0.2
109 Turkmenistan 0.1
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 2.4
111 Indonesia 2.4
112 Honduras 0.7
113 Bolivia 0.4
114 Guyana 0.2
115 Mongolia 2.0
116 Viet Nam 1.8
117 Moldova 0.9
118 Equatorial Guinea (.)
119 Uzbekistan 1.8
120 Kyrgyzstan 0.4
121 Cape Verde (.)
122 Guatemala 15.0
123 Egypt 1.6
124 Nicaragua 0.8
125 Botswana 0.1
126 Vanuatu ..
127 Tajikistan 0.1
128 Namibia (.)
129 South Africa 0.1
130 Morocco 0.5
131 Sao Tome and Principe ..
132 Bhutan 1.6
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.2
134 India 7.1
135 Solomon Islands (.)
136 Congo 6.1
137 Cambodia 0.4
138 Myanmar 19.0
139 Comoros (.)
140 Yemen 0.3
141 Pakistan 8.6
142 Swaziland 0.1
143 Angola 0.8
144 Nepal 2.1
145 Madagascar (.)
146 Bangladesh 7.3
147 Kenya 1.7
148 Papua New Guinea (.)
149 Haiti 10.3
150 Sudan 19.4
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 2.9
152 Ghana 1.7
153 Cameroon 3.0
154 Mauritania 1.0
155 Djibouti (.)
156 Lesotho (.)
157 Uganda 3.2
158 Nigeria 9.7
159 Togo 1.3
160 Malawi 8.2
161 Benin 0.2
162 Timor-Leste (.)
163 Côte d'Ivoire 7.4
164 Zambia 0.5
165 Eritrea 12.2
166 Senegal 0.9
167 Rwanda 8.2
168 Gambia 1.0
169 Liberia 3.5
170 Guinea 1.9
171 Ethiopia 29.5
172 Mozambique 0.7
173 Guinea-Bissau 0.3
174 Burundi 7.1
175 Chad 2.7
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 36.3
177 Burkina Faso 0.3
178 Mali 0.6
179 Central African Republic 1.3
180 Sierra Leone 4.7
181 Afghanistan 16.1
182 Niger 0.3
Other UN member states
Iraq 27.7
Kiribati ..
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) 0.2
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) ..
Monaco ..
Nauru (.)
Palau (.)
San Marino (.)
Somalia 16.4
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe 34.3

Sources :
UNHCR (2009a). Correspondence on asylum seekers. March. Geneva.
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