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Overcoming barriers:
Human mobility and development

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Human Development Report 2009

DConflict and insecurity induced movement
Refugees by country of origin (thousands)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway (.)
2 Australia 0.1
3 Iceland (.)
4 Canada 0.5
5 Ireland (.)
6 Netherlands (.)
7 Sweden (.)
8 France 0.1
9 Switzerland (.)
10 Japan 0.5
11 Luxembourg (.)
12 Finland (.)
13 United States 2.2
14 Austria (.)
15 Spain (.)
16 Denmark (.)
17 Belgium 0.1
18 Italy 0.1
19 Liechtenstein 0
20 New Zealand (.)
21 United Kingdom 0.2
22 Germany 0.1
23 Singapore 0.1
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) (.)
25 Greece 0.1
26 Korea (Republic of) 1.2
27 Israel 1.5
28 Andorra (.)
29 Slovenia 0.1
30 Brunei Darussalam (.)
31 Kuwait 0.7
32 Cyprus (.)
33 Qatar 0.1
34 Portugal (.)
35 United Arab Emirates 0.3
36 Czech Republic 1.4
37 Barbados (.)
38 Malta (.)
39 Bahrain 0.1
40 Estonia 0.3
41 Poland 2.9
42 Slovakia 0.3
43 Hungary 3.4
44 Chile 1.0
45 Croatia 100.4
46 Lithuania 0.5
47 Antigua and Barbuda (.)
48 Latvia 0.7
49 Argentina 1.2
50 Uruguay 0.2
51 Cuba 7.1
52 Bahamas (.)
53 Mexico 5.6
54 Costa Rica 0.4
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 2.0
56 Oman (.)
57 Seychelles 0.1
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 5.1
59 Saudi Arabia 0.8
60 Panama 0.1
61 Bulgaria 3.3
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis (.)
63 Romania 5.3
64 Trinidad and Tobago 0.2
65 Montenegro 0.6
66 Malaysia 0.6
67 Serbia 165.6
68 Belarus 5.0
69 Saint Lucia 0.2
70 Albania 15.3
71 Russian Federation 92.9
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 8.1
73 Dominica 0.1
74 Grenada 0.3
75 Brazil 1.6
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 78.3
77 Colombia 70.1
78 Peru 7.7
79 Turkey 221.9
80 Ecuador 1.3
81 Mauritius 0.1
82 Kazakhstan 5.2
83 Lebanon 13.1
84 Armenia 15.4
85 Ukraine 26.0
86 Azerbaijan 15.9
87 Thailand 2.3
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 68.4
89 Georgia 6.8
90 Dominican Republic 0.4
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.6
92 China 149.1
93 Belize (.)
94 Samoa (.)
95 Maldives (.)
96 Jordan 1.8
97 Suriname 0.1
98 Tunisia 2.5
99 Tonga (.)
100 Jamaica 0.8
101 Paraguay 0.1
102 Sri Lanka 134.9
103 Gabon 0.1
104 Algeria 10.6
105 Philippines 1.5
106 El Salvador 6.0
107 Syrian Arab Republic 13.7
108 Fiji 1.8
109 Turkmenistan 0.7
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 4,953.4 1
111 Indonesia 20.2
112 Honduras 1.2
113 Bolivia 0.4
114 Guyana 0.7
115 Mongolia 1.1
116 Viet Nam 327.8
117 Moldova 4.9
118 Equatorial Guinea 0.4
119 Uzbekistan 5.7
120 Kyrgyzstan 2.3
121 Cape Verde (.)
122 Guatemala 6.2
123 Egypt 6.8
124 Nicaragua 1.9
125 Botswana (.)
126 Vanuatu 0
127 Tajikistan 0.5
128 Namibia 1.1
129 South Africa 0.5
130 Morocco 4.0
131 Sao Tome and Principe (.)
132 Bhutan 108.1
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10.0
134 India 20.5
135 Solomon Islands (.)
136 Congo 19.7
137 Cambodia 17.7
138 Myanmar 191.3
139 Comoros 0.1
140 Yemen 1.6
141 Pakistan 31.9
142 Swaziland (.)
143 Angola 186.2
144 Nepal 3.4
145 Madagascar 0.3
146 Bangladesh 10.2
147 Kenya 7.5
148 Papua New Guinea (.)
149 Haiti 22.3
150 Sudan 523.0
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 1.3
152 Ghana 5.1
153 Cameroon 11.5
154 Mauritania 33.1
155 Djibouti 0.6
156 Lesotho (.)
157 Uganda 21.3
158 Nigeria 13.9
159 Togo 22.5
160 Malawi 0.1
161 Benin 0.3
162 Timor-Leste (.)
163 Côte d'Ivoire 22.2
164 Zambia 0.2
165 Eritrea 208.7
166 Senegal 15.9
167 Rwanda 81.0
168 Gambia 1.3
169 Liberia 91.5
170 Guinea 8.3
171 Ethiopia 59.8
172 Mozambique 0.2
173 Guinea-Bissau 1.0
174 Burundi 375.7
175 Chad 55.7
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 370.4
177 Burkina Faso 0.6
178 Mali 1.0
179 Central African Republic 98.1
180 Sierra Leone 32.1
181 Afghanistan 1,909.9
182 Niger 0.8
Other UN member states
Iraq 2,279.2
Kiribati (.)
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) 0.6
Marshall Islands 0
Micronesia (Federated States of) 0
Monaco 0
Nauru (.)
Palau (.)
San Marino (.)
Somalia 455.4
Tuvalu (.)
Zimbabwe 14.4

Notes :
1 - Including Palestinian refugees under the responsibility of UNRWA.

Sources :
UNHCR (2009b). Correspondence on refugees. March. Geneva.
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