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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & REGIONAL STUDIES
2nd Year, No. 1 – 2009
Galati University Press, ISSN 2065 -1759
Table 2. Refugee population by geographic area at the end of 2007
UNHCRassisted
region
Central
Africa and Great
Lakes
East
Africa and Horn
of Africa
Africa
Africa
South
West
Total
Africa**
America
(North, Central
and South)
Asia and
Pacific region
Refugees
Persons
living as refugees
*
Total
number of
refugees at the
end of year 2007
1,100,100 - 1,100,100
815,200 - 815,200
181,200 - 181,200
174,700 - 174,700
2,271,200 - 2,271,200
499,900 487,600 987,500
2,675,900 1,149,100 3,825,000
Europe 1,580,200 5,100 1,585,300
Middle
East and North of
Africa
2,645,000 67,600 2,721,600
Total 9,681,200 1,709,400 11,390,600
* Note: “Persons living as refugees” refers to persons outside their
home country or territory and who are subject to the same risks as refugees,
but whose status has not been defined – due to practical or other reasons.
** Without the North of Africa
Source: 2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees,
Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons, UNHCR, 2008, p.7
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