Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2017

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2017: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Country	Stateless persons reported, end of year (people)
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	932,204
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	692,000
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	621,514
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	486,440
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	233,571
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	160,000
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	92,000
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	85,555
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	82,148
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	80,314
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	70,000
IraqIRQWestern Asia	47,630
UkraineUKREastern Europe	35,294
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	35,101
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	29,522
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	20,524
KenyaKENEastern Africa	18,500
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	13,458
PolandPOLEastern Europe	10,825
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	10,500
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	10,068
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	8,138
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	7,990
BelgiumBELWestern Europe	7,695
BelarusBLREastern Europe	6,007

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,951. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +4 / −1countries joined / left
• 49values changed, of 71 in both
• 17 · 32rose · fell
• 22unchanged

+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Canada+ Malta− Egypt

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.

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  UNHCR’s own file, on its own site.

  https://api.unhcr.org/population/v1/population/?limit=1000&yearFrom=2017&yearTo=2017&coa_all=true

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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