DEFINITION
Number of refugee
status applications filed in the
United States in 2002, listed by country of chargeability Per capita figures expressed per 1,000
population.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
|
|
# 1
|
Liberia: |
4.58034 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 2
|
Somalia: |
2.8466 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 3
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
1.13679 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 4
|
Sierra Leone: |
0.660985 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 5
|
Cuba: |
0.5657 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 6
|
Ethiopia: |
0.19965 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 7
|
Eritrea: |
0.15803 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 8
|
Sudan: |
0.0915719 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 9
|
Armenia: |
0.0888367 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 10
|
Ukraine: |
0.0842394 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 11
|
Afghanistan: |
0.0714357 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 12
|
Croatia: |
0.0682829 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 13
|
Iraq: |
0.0607095 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 14
|
Estonia: |
0.0570143 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 15
|
Belarus: |
0.0532039 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 16
|
Iran: |
0.0400923 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 17
|
Moldova: |
0.0312009 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 18
|
Vietnam: |
0.0282633 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 19
|
Latvia: |
0.0235808 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 20
|
Azerbaijan: |
0.0227503 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 21
|
Rwanda: |
0.0178889 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 22
|
Djibouti: |
0.0146842 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 23
|
Kazakhstan: |
0.0137627 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 24
|
Gambia, The: |
0.0131661 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 25
|
Russia: |
0.012188 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 26
|
Burundi: |
0.010263 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 27
|
Togo: |
0.00833333 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 28
|
Georgia: |
0.00705581 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 29
|
Lithuania: |
0.00695024 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 30
|
Uzbekistan: |
0.00417117 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 31
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: |
0.00404845 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 32
|
Kyrgyzstan: |
0.00310921 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 33
|
Tajikistan: |
0.00265215 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 34
|
United Arab Emirates: |
0.00195084 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 35
|
Lebanon: |
0.00156822 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 36
|
Central African Republic: |
0.00141576 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 37
|
Angola: |
0.00101463 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 38
|
Turkmenistan: |
0.00100969 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 39
|
Cambodia: |
0.000806688 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 40
|
Guinea-Bissau: |
0.000707714 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 41
|
Senegal: |
0.00068341 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 42
|
Algeria: |
0.000645518 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 43
|
Yemen: |
0.000530709 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 44
|
Cameroon: |
0.000529786 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 45
|
Sri Lanka: |
0.00049838 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 46
|
Tanzania: |
0.000407986 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 47
|
Ghana: |
0.000318965 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 48
|
Israel: |
0.000318624 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 49
|
Albania: |
0.000280662 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 50
|
Nigeria: |
0.000256279 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 51
|
Syria: |
0.000216814 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 52
|
Burma: |
0.00021278 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 53
|
Laos: |
0.000160849 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 54
|
Zambia: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 55
|
Kenya: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 56
|
Zimbabwe: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 57
|
Egypt: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 58
|
Thailand: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 59
|
Pakistan: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 60
|
Uganda: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 61
|
Poland: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 62
|
Germany: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
|
# 63
|
China: |
0 per 1,000 people |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
0.2 per 1,000 people |
|
DEFINITION: Number of refugee
status applications filed in the
United States in 2002, listed by country of chargeability Per capita figures expressed per 1,000
population.