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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011

Figures for 2011, 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, 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

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, 2011, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 62 countries · select a heading to sort

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2011: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia808,075
NepalNPLSouthern Asia800,000
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia506,197
LatviaLVANorthern Europe312,362
SyriaSYRWestern Asia231,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe178,000
IraqIRQWestern Asia120,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe97,749
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia93,000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia70,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia40,001
UkraineUKREastern Europe39,817
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia32,300
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20,992
KenyaKENEastern Africa20,000
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia11,000
SwedenSWENorthern Europe10,344
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia10,200
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe8,500
GermanyDEUWestern Europe8,044
BelarusBLREastern Europe7,391
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia7,337
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe4,500
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4,312
FinlandFINNorthern Europe3,614

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Myanmar808,075
  2. Nepal800,000
  3. Thailand506,197
  4. Latvia312,362
  5. Syria231,000

Lowest

  1. Panamashared5
  2. Mexicoshared5
  3. Israel9
  4. Armenia11
  5. 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

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

Rose most

Fell most

− Liechtenstein− Slovenia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 60 distinct values among 62

    Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 205. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 62 countries has every column.

05The 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

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

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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

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