Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2021

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2021: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Country	Stateless persons reported, end of year (people)
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	931,166
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	918,841
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	600,000
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	561,527
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	195,354
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	160,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	112,420
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	92,000
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	75,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	70,594
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	70,000
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	67,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	54,061
IraqIRQWestern Asia	47,253
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	46,933
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	37,993
UkraineUKREastern Europe	35,933
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	35,475
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	27,939
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	20,863
IndiaINDSouthern Asia	20,154
KenyaKENEastern Africa	16,779
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	11,643
South SudanSSDEastern Africa	10,000
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	9,500

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,669. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +4 / −0countries joined / left
• 62values changed, of 87 in both
• 30 · 32rose · fell
• 25unchanged

+ Mongolia+ Rwanda+ Uganda+ Uruguay

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=2021&yearTo=2021&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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