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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2010

Figures for 2010, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

How many people living in each country are recognised as a national by no state, as reported to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, under its mandate to identify and protect stateless people. Without a nationality, people can be shut out of schooling, work, health care and the vote.

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2010 covers 64 countries. Nepal is highest, at 800,000; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 5. The middle country reads 1,929.

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence · Data for 2010

HighestNepal

800,000

Lowest2 countries share it

5

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2010, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 64 countries · select a heading to sort

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2010: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
NepalNPLSouthern Asia800,000
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia797,388
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia542,505
LatviaLVANorthern Europe326,906
SyriaSYRWestern Asia300,000
IraqIRQWestern Asia120,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe100,983
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia93,000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia70,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe50,000
UkraineUKREastern Europe40,353
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia40,001
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia21,157
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20,992
KenyaKENEastern Africa20,000
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia20,000
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia10,200
SwedenSWENorthern Europe9,344
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe8,500
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia7,966
GermanyDEUWestern Europe7,920
BelarusBLREastern Europe7,731
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe5,000
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe4,090
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe3,674

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Nepal800,000
  2. Myanmar797,388
  3. Thailand542,505
  4. Latvia326,906
  5. Syria300,000

Lowest

  1. Panamashared5
  2. Mexicoshared5
  3. Liechtensteinshared6
  4. Armeniashared6
  5. Israel9

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,929. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 58 distinct values among 64

    Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 20,000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 64 countries has every column.

04The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2010). Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stateless-persons/2010

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