Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2025

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2025: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Country	Stateless persons reported, end of year (people)
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	1,177,962
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	930,958
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	610,791
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	519,647
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	167,512
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	160,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	134,676
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	92,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	87,826
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	75,000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	70,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	62,043
South SudanSSDEastern Africa	60,600
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	40,000
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	28,315
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	25,177
IndiaINDSouthern Asia	22,694
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	20,863
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	16,000
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	14,796
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	14,500
SpainESPSouthern Europe	11,580
CanadaCANNorthern America	10,288
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	10,284
KenyaKENEastern Africa	9,800

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,314. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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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=2025&yearTo=2025&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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