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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 asylum (thousands)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway 34.5
2 Australia 22.2
3 Iceland (.)
4 Canada 175.7
5 Ireland 9.3
6 Netherlands 86.6
7 Sweden 75.1
8 France 151.8
9 Switzerland 45.7
10 Japan 1.8
11 Luxembourg 2.7
12 Finland 6.2
13 United States 281.2
14 Austria 30.8
15 Spain 5.1
16 Denmark 26.8
17 Belgium 17.6
18 Italy 38.1
19 Liechtenstein 0.3
20 New Zealand 2.7
21 United Kingdom 299.7
22 Germany 578.9
23 Singapore (.)
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 0.1
25 Greece 2.2
26 Korea (Republic of) 0.1
27 Israel 1.2
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia 0.3
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait 0.2
32 Cyprus 1.2
33 Qatar (.)
34 Portugal 0.4
35 United Arab Emirates 0.2
36 Czech Republic 2.0
37 Barbados ..
38 Malta 3.0
39 Bahrain 0
40 Estonia (.)
41 Poland 9.8
42 Slovakia 0.3
43 Hungary 8.1
44 Chile 1.4
45 Croatia 1.6
46 Lithuania 0.7
47 Antigua and Barbuda ..
48 Latvia (.)
49 Argentina 3.3
50 Uruguay 0.1
51 Cuba 0.6
52 Bahamas ..
53 Mexico 1.6
54 Costa Rica 11.6
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 4.1
56 Oman (.)
57 Seychelles ..
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.9
59 Saudi Arabia 240.7
60 Panama 1.9
61 Bulgaria 4.8
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis ..
63 Romania 1.8
64 Trinidad and Tobago (.)
65 Montenegro 8.5
66 Malaysia 32.2
67 Serbia 98.0
68 Belarus 0.6
69 Saint Lucia 0
70 Albania 0.1
71 Russian Federation 1.7
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 1.2
73 Dominica ..
74 Grenada ..
75 Brazil 3.8
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.4
77 Colombia 0.2
78 Peru 1.0
79 Turkey 7.0
80 Ecuador 14.9
81 Mauritius 0
82 Kazakhstan 4.3
83 Lebanon 466.9 1
84 Armenia 4.6
85 Ukraine 2.3
86 Azerbaijan 2.4
87 Thailand 125.6
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 963.5
89 Georgia 1.0
90 Dominican Republic ..
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ..
92 China 301.1
93 Belize 0.4
94 Samoa ..
95 Maldives ..
96 Jordan 2,431.0 1
97 Suriname (.)
98 Tunisia 0.1
99 Tonga ..
100 Jamaica ..
101 Paraguay 0.1
102 Sri Lanka 0.2
103 Gabon 8.8
104 Algeria 94.1
105 Philippines 0.1
106 El Salvador (.)
107 Syrian Arab Republic 1,960.8 1
108 Fiji 0
109 Turkmenistan 0.1
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 1,813.8 1
111 Indonesia 0.3
112 Honduras (.)
113 Bolivia 0.6
114 Guyana ..
115 Mongolia (.)
116 Viet Nam 2.4
117 Moldova 0.2
118 Equatorial Guinea 0
119 Uzbekistan 1.1
120 Kyrgyzstan 0.4
121 Cape Verde ..
122 Guatemala 0.4
123 Egypt 97.6
124 Nicaragua 0.2
125 Botswana 2.5
126 Vanuatu (.)
127 Tajikistan 1.1
128 Namibia 6.5
129 South Africa 36.7
130 Morocco 0.8
131 Sao Tome and Principe 0
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0
134 India 161.5
135 Solomon Islands ..
136 Congo 38.5
137 Cambodia 0.2
138 Myanmar 0
139 Comoros 0
140 Yemen 117.4
141 Pakistan 887.3
142 Swaziland 0.8
143 Angola 12.1
144 Nepal 128.2
145 Madagascar 0
146 Bangladesh 27.6
147 Kenya 265.7
148 Papua New Guinea 10.0
149 Haiti (.)
150 Sudan 222.7
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 435.6
152 Ghana 35.0
153 Cameroon 60.1
154 Mauritania 1.0
155 Djibouti 6.7
156 Lesotho 0
157 Uganda 229.0
158 Nigeria 8.5
159 Togo 1.3
160 Malawi 2.9
161 Benin 7.6
162 Timor-Leste (.)
163 Côte d'Ivoire 24.6
164 Zambia 112.9
165 Eritrea 5.0
166 Senegal 20.4
167 Rwanda 53.6
168 Gambia 14.9
169 Liberia 10.5
170 Guinea 25.2
171 Ethiopia 85.2
172 Mozambique 2.8
173 Guinea-Bissau 7.9
174 Burundi 24.5
175 Chad 294.0
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 177.4
177 Burkina Faso 0.5
178 Mali 9.2
179 Central African Republic 7.5
180 Sierra Leone 8.8
181 Afghanistan (.)
182 Niger 0.3
Other UN member states
Iraq 42.4
Kiribati ..
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) ..
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) (.)
Monaco ..
Nauru ..
Palau ..
San Marino ..
Somalia 0.9
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe 4.0

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

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