Data for 2011

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011

Figures for 2011, as UNHCR published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011 covers 62 countries. Myanmar is highest, at 808,075; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 5. The middle country reads 1,873. Against 2010, 41 values changed (18 up, 23 down), 2 left.

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence · Data for 2011

HighestMyanmar

808,075

Lowest2 countries share it

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

62countries
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2011the year it describes
60distinct valueswhole numbers, as published
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01Values only

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Every country and every column of Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	808,075
NepalNPLSouthern Asia	800,000
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	506,197
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	312,362
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	231,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	178,000
IraqIRQWestern Asia	120,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	97,749
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	93,000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	70,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	40,001
UkraineUKREastern Europe	39,817
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	32,300
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	20,992
KenyaKENEastern Africa	20,000
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	11,000
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	10,344
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	10,200
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	8,500
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	8,044
BelarusBLREastern Europe	7,391
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	7,337
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	4,500
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	4,312
FinlandFINNorthern Europe	3,614
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	3,480
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	3,183
NorwayNORNorthern Europe	2,773
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	2,300
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	2,073
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	2,005
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	1,741
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	1,720
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	1,569
JapanJPNEastern Asia	1,234
QatarQATWestern Asia	1,200
FranceFRAWestern Europe	1,180
ItalyITASouthern Europe	1,176
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	1,154
BurundiBDIEastern Africa	1,059
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	780
PolandPOLEastern Europe	763
BelgiumBELWestern Europe	697
AustriaAUTWestern Europe	464
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	292
RomaniaROUEastern Europe	275
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	205
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	205
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	179
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	177
IcelandISLNorthern Europe	106
HungaryHUNEastern Europe	89
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	63
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	60
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	54
SpainESPSouthern Europe	36
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe	31
ColombiaCOLSouth America	12
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	11
IsraelISRWestern Asia	9
MexicoMEXCentral America	5
PanamaPANCentral America	5

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Myanmar808,075
Nepal800,000
Thailand506,197
Latvia312,362
Syria231,000

Lowest

Panamashared5
Mexicoshared5
Israel9
Armenia11
Colombia12

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,873. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −2countries joined / left
41values changed, of 62 in both
18 · 23rose · fell
21unchanged

Rose most

Russia50,000 → 178,000+128,000
Kyrgyzstan21,157 → 32,300+11,143
Myanmar797,388 → 808,075+10,687
Montenegro1,300 → 4,312+3,012
Sweden9,344 → 10,344+1,000

Fell most

Syria300,000 → 231,000−69,000
Thailand542,505 → 506,197−36,308
Latvia326,906 → 312,362−14,544
Turkmenistan20,000 → 11,000−9,000
Estonia100,983 → 97,749−3,234

− Liechtenstein

− Slovenia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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The site’s method

60 distinct values among 62
Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 205. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Which end is better
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Nothing missing
Every one of the 62 countries has every column.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2011). Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stateless-persons/2011

0616 held

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