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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 as a percentage of international immigrantsExcel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway 9.3
2 Australia 0.5
3 Iceland 0.2
4 Canada 2.8
5 Ireland 1.5
6 Netherlands 5.0
7 Sweden 6.7
8 France 2.3
9 Switzerland 2.8
10 Japan 0.1
11 Luxembourg 1.8
12 Finland 3.6
13 United States 0.7
14 Austria 2.7
15 Spain 0.1
16 Denmark 6.4
17 Belgium 2.0
18 Italy 1.2
19 Liechtenstein 2.4
20 New Zealand 0.3
21 United Kingdom 5.1
22 Germany 5.5
23 Singapore (.)
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) (.)
25 Greece 0.2
26 Korea (Republic of) (.)
27 Israel (.)
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia 0.2
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait (.)
32 Cyprus 1.0
33 Qatar (.)
34 Portugal (.)
35 United Arab Emirates (.)
36 Czech Republic 0.4
37 Barbados ..
38 Malta 25.7
39 Bahrain 0
40 Estonia (.)
41 Poland 1.2
42 Slovakia 0.2
43 Hungary 2.4
44 Chile 0.6
45 Croatia 0.2
46 Lithuania 0.4
47 Antigua and Barbuda ..
48 Latvia (.)
49 Argentina 0.2
50 Uruguay 0.2
51 Cuba 4.0
52 Bahamas ..
53 Mexico 0.3
54 Costa Rica 2.6
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 0.7
56 Oman (.)
57 Seychelles ..
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.1
59 Saudi Arabia 3.8
60 Panama 1.8
61 Bulgaria 4.6
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis ..
63 Romania 1.3
64 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1
65 Montenegro 15.6
66 Malaysia 1.6
67 Serbia 14.5
68 Belarus 0.1
69 Saint Lucia 0
70 Albania 0.1
71 Russian Federation (.)
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 1.0
73 Dominica ..
74 Grenada ..
75 Brazil 0.6
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 21.0
77 Colombia 0.2
78 Peru 2.4
79 Turkey 0.5
80 Ecuador 12.1
81 Mauritius 0
82 Kazakhstan 0.1
83 Lebanon 64.7 1
84 Armenia 0.9
85 Ukraine (.)
86 Azerbaijan 0.9
87 Thailand 12.8
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 46.7
89 Georgia 0.5
90 Dominican Republic ..
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ..
92 China 51.0
93 Belize 0.9
94 Samoa ..
95 Maldives ..
96 Jordan ..
97 Suriname (.)
98 Tunisia 0.3
99 Tonga ..
100 Jamaica ..
101 Paraguay (.)
102 Sri Lanka (.)
103 Gabon 3.6
104 Algeria 38.8
105 Philippines (.)
106 El Salvador 0.1
107 Syrian Arab Republic ..
108 Fiji 0
109 Turkmenistan 0.1
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories ..
111 Indonesia 0.2
112 Honduras 0.1
113 Bolivia 0.6
114 Guyana ..
115 Mongolia 0.1
116 Viet Nam 4.3
117 Moldova (.)
118 Equatorial Guinea 0
119 Uzbekistan 0.1
120 Kyrgyzstan 0.1
121 Cape Verde ..
122 Guatemala 0.7
123 Egypt 39.5
124 Nicaragua 0.5
125 Botswana 3.1
126 Vanuatu 0.1
127 Tajikistan 0.4
128 Namibia 5.0
129 South Africa 2.9
130 Morocco 1.5
131 Sao Tome and Principe 0
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0
134 India 2.7
135 Solomon Islands ..
136 Congo 29.9
137 Cambodia 0.1
138 Myanmar 0
139 Comoros 0
140 Yemen 25.8
141 Pakistan 25.0
142 Swaziland 2.0
143 Angola 21.5
144 Nepal 15.7
145 Madagascar 0
146 Bangladesh 2.7
147 Kenya 33.6
148 Papua New Guinea 39.2
149 Haiti (.)
150 Sudan 34.8
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 54.6
152 Ghana 2.1
153 Cameroon 28.4
154 Mauritania 1.5
155 Djibouti 6.0
156 Lesotho 0
157 Uganda 35.1
158 Nigeria 0.9
159 Togo 0.7
160 Malawi 1.1
161 Benin 4.1
162 Timor-Leste (.)
163 Côte d'Ivoire 1.0
164 Zambia 39.3
165 Eritrea 34.4
166 Senegal 9.3
167 Rwanda 12.3
168 Gambia 6.4
169 Liberia 10.8
170 Guinea 6.3
171 Ethiopia 15.4
172 Mozambique 0.7
173 Guinea-Bissau 40.9
174 Burundi 30.0
175 Chad 82.0
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 36.9
177 Burkina Faso 0.1
178 Mali 5.6
179 Central African Republic 10.0
180 Sierra Leone 5.8
181 Afghanistan (.)
182 Niger 0.2
Other UN member states
Iraq 33.1
Kiribati ..
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) ..
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.1
Monaco ..
Nauru ..
Palau ..
San Marino ..
Somalia 4.2
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe 1.0

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

Sources :
calculated based on UNHCR (2009b). Correspondence on refugees. March. Geneva and UN (2009d)."Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2008 Revision." New York: Department of Social and Economic Affairs.
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