Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2024

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Stateless Persons by Country of Residence, 2024: every country, as published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Country	Stateless persons reported, end of year (people)
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	1,005,520
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	930,978
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	619,429
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	612,524
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	173,891
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	160,000
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	120,857
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	92,000
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	90,185
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	75,000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	70,000
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	63,944
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	40,000
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	28,813
IndiaINDSouthern Asia	23,262
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	20,863
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	20,590
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	20,000
South SudanSSDEastern Africa	18,000
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	14,796
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	14,500
UkraineUKREastern Europe	10,910
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	10,284
SpainESPSouthern Europe	10,164
KenyaKENEastern Africa	9,800

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,267. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +5 / −1countries joined / left
• 66values changed, of 90 in both
• 32 · 34rose · fell
• 24unchanged

+ Colombia+ Lebanon+ Malta+ Namibia+ Panama− Turkmenistan

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=2024&yearTo=2024&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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