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Countries that Host the Most Refugees

Name the countries that host the most people who have fled from another country.
As of 2022. Source.
Includes all registered refugees, asylum seekers, and other persons of concern who fled at any time and haven't returned
Quiz by KeyMaster
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Last updated: July 10, 2023
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First submittedJune 26, 2015
Times taken47,670
Average score81.8%
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Top source
Country
3.84 mil
Syria
Turkey
3.43 mil
Afghanistan
Iran
2.48 mil
Venezuela
Colombia
2.34 mil
Ukraine
Germany
2.16 mil
Venezuela
United States
1.78 mil
Afghanistan
Pakistan
1.51 mil
Venezuela
Peru
1.50 mil
South Sudan
Uganda
1.28 mil
Ukraine
Russia
1.13 mil
South Sudan
Sudan
974 k
Ukraine
Poland
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Top source
Country
952 k
Myanmar
Bangladesh
882 k
South Sudan
Ethiopia
827 k
Syria
Lebanon
743 k
Syria
Jordan
688 k
Afghanistan
France
598 k
Sudan
Chad
573 k
Somalia
Kenya
565 k
Venezuela
Ecuador
538 k
Venezuela
Brazil
523 k
Central African Republic
D. R. Congo
496 k
Ukraine
United Kingdom
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Level 62
Jan 22, 2018
Who would have thought there would be consequences to invading sovereign nations and overthrowing their democratically elected leaders?
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Level 70
Jan 22, 2018
Probably every warmonger involved. The more interesting question is whether those consequences have been accepted collateral damage or explicit strategic goals.
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Level 62
Jan 22, 2018
I'll pass on answering that one. If I did, I'd return here tomorrow to a 3-page essay from kalbahamut.
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Level 81
Jan 23, 2018
Amusing
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Level 82
May 5, 2018
Say something not in need of correcting and I won't need to correct you.
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Level 76
Apr 11, 2023
CLASSIC ONE-LINER FROM KALBAHAMUT
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Level 81
Jul 11, 2023
I've never noticed this particular narcissistic comment in the sea of all your other narcissistic comments... You should really try some narcissistic personality disorder test, you will be surprised and your friends and family will be grateful.
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Level 70
May 5, 2018
probably both in different situations
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Level 75
May 5, 2018
"Say something not in need of correcting and I won't need to correct you." Translation: Say something that conforms to U.S. foreign policy and I won't need to correct you.
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Level 75
May 6, 2018
Loved your stuff about East Timor on the Catholic countries quiz today. Keep up the informative work.
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Level 51
May 10, 2018
'If there's something he has said that I corrected I'm very sure it wasn't something that you would think was accurate.'

So basically a roundabout way of saying 'I'm right'?

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Level 82
May 10, 2018
No, Aesthus. You, Pork, and tshalla are all routinely wrong but in different and unique ways. I was pointing out that it is odd tshalla would be coming to Pork's defense, given that the two probably agree on almost nothing, but I know he couldn't resist the chance to try and insult me.
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Level 82
Oct 18, 2020
tsh: by "my stuff" do you mean where I made a single error in an otherwise correct post, that error was pointed out, I readily admitted to the mistake as I always do when anyone points out where I was wrong (unlike some people who never do that), and then moved on? That's what you're going to use to try and score points?
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Level 62
Jan 23, 2018
One factor among many in most of these places. I know it's hip to blame all the world's ails on interventionism, but let's not be so simplistic.
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Level 70
Jan 23, 2018
Right, and at least those refugees from China and Vietnam are rather due to purely domestic affairs. However, in the other cases recent or past interventionism has definitively been one of the driving factors.
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Level 62
Jan 23, 2018
I wouldn't say it's being simplistic. At least 15 out of the 20 entries are on this list because the source country either tried to establish its own banking system/currency or put up resistance to giving up its natural resources.
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Level 70
Jan 23, 2018
Can you back this? I would argue that for all listed countries but China, Vietnam, and Afghanistan past imperialistic "interventionism" is (also a/)the dominant driver. 19th/20th-century-imperialism is there still manifested in terms of arbitrary borders. "It's the economy, stupid!" is indeed too simplistic, IMHO. ;-)
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Level ∞
Jan 24, 2018
There's a certain naive thread in western circles that assumes that everything would be great in Iran, Congo, and other countries if only they had the "right" leader. Therefore obscure U.S. actions in those countries several decades ago are the reason why they are so messed up.
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Level ∞
Jan 24, 2018
Because, actually, Belgium is to blame for most of the world's problems.
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Level 74
May 5, 2018
Quizmaster, why do you hate Belgium so much?
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Level 82
May 5, 2018
His father choked to death on a waffle.
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Level 65
May 5, 2018
Other countries, including Congo itself - I would say
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Level 74
Aug 14, 2020
Why, past me, why. Go away I don't want to see your comments anymore
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Level 55
May 5, 2018
Half of these countries are on the list because there wasn't an intervention or there was too little of one. Pulling out of Somalia and not going into Syria sure was a good idea, am I right?
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Level 87
Aug 17, 2020
Amazing that literally not one of the above situations actually fulfills your statement. Try again?
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Level 73
Jan 22, 2018
Man, this is rough. I can't imagine being, say, a Somali going to Yemen to seek safety.
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Level 63
Jan 23, 2018
Somalia is generally considered to be a more corrupt and less developed than Yemen. Somalia just hasn't got into the media spotlight like Syria, Yemen, and Iraq have.
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Level 70
Jan 23, 2018
Somalia hasn't had a stable government since 1991.
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Level 87
Jan 26, 2018
Well, this is 2015 data, before Yemen fell apart completely.
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Level 75
May 5, 2018
I don't know how it's different today, but southern Yemen has had a large Somali population for some time (terribly vague, I know). Struggles in the north from about 2006 probably did nothing to change this. I don't know about the stuff since 2012, but I don't think it's guaranteed that there's been a significant movement back, or elsewhere, since then.
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Level 81
Jan 23, 2018
Good quiz - Yemen flummoxed me for a smidgen
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Level 78
Jan 25, 2018
It's interesting how countries that have the most refugees fleeing from the country also commonly have the most refugees fleeing into the country.
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Level 73
May 5, 2018
Well, no one's fleeing into Syria, that's for sure.
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Level 82
May 5, 2018
It's largely just a collection of countries in the least stable parts of the world. This leads to large population displacements going in various directions.
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Level 76
May 5, 2018
Crazy how both Sudan and South Sudan are on here, with the other one always being the main source
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Level 78
May 5, 2018
I suppose it's just Christians from Sudan going south, and Muslims from South Sudan going north.
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Level 75
May 5, 2018
I would guess that it's Muslims fleeing from South Sudan and Christians fleeing from Sudan. But I could be wrong.
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Level 77
May 5, 2018
Maybe it is time to update quiz. Bangladesh now has over 700,000 Rohynga refugees fleeing Myanmar.
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Level 66
May 5, 2018
I've been to ?, and quite liked it. Couldn't really tell you why I liked it though, it had a certain mystique to it.
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Level 59
May 5, 2018
Sounds like I should skip my Syria trip this year.
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Level 66
May 5, 2018
So people from South Sudan are fleeing to Sudan, and then people from Sudan are fleeing to South Sudan? How would this work?
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Level 66
May 6, 2018
Because the Christians are going one way and the Muslims are going the other,
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Level 62
May 6, 2018
The population is still adjusting to the schism. They flee to whichever side of the formerly quasi-unified country that is more geopolitically or religiously compatible with them.
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Level 63
May 6, 2018
As an Australia who has to read about the refugee problem we have here all the time, its absolutely hilarious to me that it doesn't even make the list! Our government is nothing but a great big giant cry-baby, angry that it has to take care of... not many refugees, really.
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Level 76
May 7, 2018
Same for me in the UK - we are such a wealthy country and we are doing so little.
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Level 82
Aug 14, 2020
Look at Lebanon ... 1/7 inhabitants is a refugee and it's the size of 4.4× ACT.
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Level 57
Oct 15, 2020
It’s not quite the same. Syrian refugees’ culture is a lot more similar to Lebanon’s than Australia. So a smaller percentage of Australians is more noticeable and problematic than a larger percentage of Lebanese being refugees.
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Level 58
May 7, 2018
I think it was my first attempt and I got 20/20. GG
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Level 54
May 7, 2018
being a 2018 quiz is a bit outdated, the second largest refugee crisis comes from Venezuela, having almost 2 million refugees, almost a million of them in Colombia, and not as many from Afghanistan anymore that is now third.
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Level 43
May 7, 2018
No Italy, really? lmao
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Level 48
Mar 15, 2019
I think they go to Italy but then move on. Maybe it's the food.
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Level 60
Oct 15, 2020
they don't stay in Italy, it is just the entry point
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Level 43
Nov 14, 2018
Sudan goes to South Sudan and South Sudan goes back to Sudan ...
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Level 69
Nov 7, 2019
Arab Muslims go to Sudan and African Christians go to South Sudan. One of the main reason why they split up in 2011.
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Level 71
Aug 17, 2020
Does anyone else find it odd that China is the largest source of refugees to the US? Obviously America has an enormous Chinese population, but I'm pretty sure the majority of them (including all of the ones I know) are here for economic reasons. Does this have anything to do with the caveat (perhaps people fleeing Maoist China in the 60s and 70s for example) or am I just incorrect in my previous assumption?
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Level 82
Oct 15, 2020
I think it probably has a lot to do with the caveat.
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Level ∞
Jul 10, 2023
With the latest update, China is no longer the largest source of refugees to the U.S.

They are now fifth after Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, and El Salvador.

But the reason that there are so many from China is that many Chinese gamed the system as a way to immigrate. Since China persecutes Christians (you can argue about the extent of this), the U.S. allowed pretty much any Chinese person to claim to be Christian and use that as a basis for asylum. There were whole agencies set up to facilitate this.

Here's an NPR report on the asylum mills.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/28/652218318/thousands-could-be-deported-as-government-targets-asylum-mills-clients

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Level 76
Aug 28, 2020
A very sad quiz to have done.
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Level 45
Feb 15, 2021
Lebanon's numbers are wrong. Out of the 6 M inhabitants, only 4M are Lebanese, Armenians or legal foreign workers. Refugees from Syria (1.25M), Palestine (600K) and Iraq (~200K) make up the remaining 2 M.
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Level 74
Nov 2, 2021
Thank you for the updated data in this quiz. It's very interesting and informative.
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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
syrian refugees are going to germany???
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Level 65
Jul 30, 2022
No South Korea for North Korea??
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Level 69
Aug 12, 2022
It's really difficult to escape from North Korea, so there wouldn't be enough people to make the list.
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Level 51
Jun 27, 2023
Surprised that the main source of the USA isn't Mexico.
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Level 92
Jul 10, 2023
Maybe it's a definitional question, in that most illegal immigrants from Mexico proper into the U.S. may not be classified as refugees or asylum seekers. As opposed to immigrants from other Central American or South American countries who are just transiting through Mexico to get to the U.S. as refugees or asylum seekers.
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Level 83
Jul 10, 2023
Refugees from Ukraine going to Russia? How?
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Level ∞
Jul 11, 2023
Ukraine had a large Russian population prior to the war.
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Level 87
Jul 11, 2023
I'll be controversial and say that there's been an enormous movement of people into Russia from Ukraine that were involuntary movements. Make of THAT what you will.
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Level 74
Jul 11, 2023
If you want to get yourself and your family out of a warzone, then you idealy go oposite direction of the front. If the front is between you and the west, you're going east. That hasn't really a lot to do with language.
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Level 53
Sep 28, 2023
Not to mention that most Ukrainians speak at least some Russian and their languages are very similar
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Level 62
Sep 28, 2023
Had 2 seconds left and somehow got two South American countries with 1 second to spare...

Yikes.

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Level 46
Oct 3, 2023
I got everything except the most obvious one, the US