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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2015

Figures for 2015, 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, 2015 covers 74 countries. Myanmar is highest, at 938,000; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 5. The middle country reads 2,494. Against 2014, 48 values changed (22 up, 26 down), 3 countries joined.

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence · Data for 2015

HighestMyanmar

938,000

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, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 74 countries · select a heading to sort

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2015: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia938,000
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa700,000
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia443,862
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa300,000
LatviaLVANorthern Europe252,195
SyriaSYRWestern Asia160,000
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean133,770
RussiaRUSEastern Europe101,813
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia93,000
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia86,703
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe85,301
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia70,000
IraqIRQWestern Asia50,000
UkraineUKREastern Europe35,228
SwedenSWENorthern Europe31,062
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20,524
KenyaKENEastern Africa20,000
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia19,469
GermanyDEUWestern Europe12,569
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia11,689
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia11,000
PolandPOLEastern Europe10,825
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia9,118
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia7,909
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe7,442

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Myanmar938,000
  2. Côte d’Ivoire700,000
  3. Thailand443,862
  4. Zimbabwe300,000
  5. Latvia252,195

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared5
  2. Brazilshared5
  3. Mongolia6
  4. Colombia12
  5. Mexico13

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,494. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 48values changed, of 71 in both
  • 22 · 26rose · fell
  • 23unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Haiti+ Zimbabwe

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 73 distinct values among 74

    Values are stored exactly as published. 2 countries share 5. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 74 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 (2015). Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stateless-persons/2015

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