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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2019

Figures for 2019, 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, 2019 covers 84 countries. Côte d’Ivoire is highest, at 955,399; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 5. The middle country reads 1,951. Against 2018, 57 values changed (33 up, 24 down), 9 countries joined, 2 left.

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence · Data for 2019

HighestCôte d’Ivoire

955,399

Lowest3 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, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2019: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa955,399
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia854,704
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia600,000
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia475,007
LatviaLVANorthern Europe216,851
SyriaSYRWestern Asia160,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia108,332
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia97,346
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia92,020
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe75,599
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia70,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe68,251
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia57,444
SwedenSWENorthern Europe53,729
IraqIRQWestern Asia47,253
UkraineUKREastern Europe35,701
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia30,581
GermanyDEUWestern Europe26,369
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20,863
KenyaKENEastern Africa18,500
IndiaINDSouthern Asia17,730
ItalyITASouthern Europe15,839
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11,682
BelgiumBELWestern Europe11,208
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia8,386

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Côte d’Ivoire955,399
  2. Bangladesh854,704
  3. Myanmar600,000
  4. Thailand475,007
  5. Latvia216,851

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared5
  2. New Zealandshared5
  3. Egyptshared5
  4. Brazil7
  5. Papua New Guinea9

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.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

  • +9 / −2countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 75 in both
  • 33 · 24rose · fell
  • 18unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Cyprus+ Indonesia+ India+ Jordan+ Nauru+ New Zealand+ Papua New Guinea+ United States− Haiti− Türkiye

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 79 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published. 3 countries share 5. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 84 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 (2019). Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/stateless-persons/2019

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