Urban refugee
Refugees are not only housed in refugee camps, but increasingly also live in urban areas in developing countries. These refugees, more than 60% of the refugees and 80% of the internally displaced persons , are known as urban refugees . Reasons for living in the city can either be that the territory or the state to which they fled does not provide refugee camps (e.g. Egypt, Syria), or that the refugees themselves prefer to live outside of refugee camps, among other things, in order to be less dependent on the support of aid organizations and to have more economic freedom. However, the UNHCR is less able to protect urban refugees from attacks and rights violations by the population or the police.
Since 2017, the UNHCR has given preference to urban refugees for resettlement , compared to refugees who are housed in camps.
Urban centers with refugee populations
State / territory | Urban center | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
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Angola | Luanda | 12,300 | 12,323 | 11,315 | 11.096 | 15,895 | 14,990 | 2,638 | ||
Argentina | Buenos Aires | 4,310 | 4.025 | |||||||
Armenia | Yerevan | 16,818 | 12,729 | 7,385 | 3,679 | 4,087 | 1,682 | 1,861 | 1,798 | 51,330 |
Azerbaijan | Baku | 203.906 | 195.824 | 189,966 | 1,793 | 3,981 | 2,170 | 186.909 | 166,489 | 164,650 |
Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | 1,795 | 1,899 | 2,262 | 2,106 | 2,103 | ||||
Brazil | São Paulo | 5,527 | 3,289 | 2,530 | 1,998 | 1,795 | ||||
Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 1,597 | 1,734 | 1,211 | 1,065 | 1,058 | 1,161 | 1,133 | 1,267 | |
Burundi | Bujumbura | 22,789 | 22,662 | 21,901 | 23,485 | 21,253 | 12,227 | 9,307 | 12,773 | 9,986 |
Congo | Brazzaville | 12,293 | 8,089 | 7,019 | 6,547 | 8,549 | 8,703 | 7.185 | 8,630 | 3,493 |
Ivory Coast | Abidjan | 1,585 | 1,810 | 1,699 | 4,546 | 3,738 | 3,583 | 3,585 | 483.931 | 485.466 |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Kinshasa | 2,325 | 10,381 | 10,447 | 15,840 | 15,838 | 15,816 | 25,571 | 25.605 | 28,451 |
Egypt | Alexandria | 28,505 | 29,785 | 3,514 | ||||||
Egypt | Cairo | 51.126 | 42,448 | 15,546 | 101.405 | 98,602 | 107.913 | 112.605 | 112,515 | 104,467 |
Egypt | Giza | 16,976 | 14,648 | 5.101 | 6.002 | 5.131 | ||||
Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 6,042 | 4,813 | 4,346 | 2,640 | 2,822 | 1,802 | 1,526 | 1.014 | |
Gabon | Libreville | 1,394 | 2.167 | 2,308 | 5,153 | 4,527 | 4,338 | 4,332 | 4,089 | 3,939 |
Ghana | Accra | 2,797 | 2,560 | 3,956 | 4,344 | 1,040 | 740 | 1,283 | 2.151 | 5,865 |
India | Delhi | 30,939 | 26,396 | 22,050 | 20,484 | 18,569 | 17,881 | 15,042 | 13,835 | 12,241 |
Indonesia | Jakarta | 1.961 | 1,520 | 1,268 | 2,567 | |||||
Iraq | Babylon | 16,986 | 36,144 | 48.092 | 56.002 | 63,086 | ||||
Iraq | Baghdad | 11,746 | 263,485 | 480,336 | 489.496 | 428,647 | 707.235 | 10,575 | 13,020 | 14,381 |
Thailand | Bangkok | 8,598 | 4.112 | 2,423 | 2,072 | 6.702 | 6,944 | 6,466 | 6,424 | 6,481 |
Turkey | Ankara | 1,382 | 2,352 | |||||||
Uganda | Kampala | 72.019 | 43,379 | 69,476 | 42,500 | 37,820 | 26,994 | 18,377 | 4,992 | 4,646 |
Syria | Damascus | 456.225 | 24,461 | 52,240 | 80,305 | 49,647 | ||||
Senegal | Dakar | 4,313 | 3,849 | 3,691 | 3,819 | 2,912 | 3,570 | 3,595 | 3,456 | 3,595 |
Libya | Tripoli | 36,868 | 32,169 | 13,617 | 13,025 | 11,117 | 12,322 | 4,754 | ||
Macedonia | Skopje | 1,290 | 1,468 | 1,610 | 1,672 | 2,310 | 1,474 | 1,621 | 1,701 | 1,790 |
South Korea | Seoul | 3,430 | 2,373 | 1,762 | 1,364 | 1,243 | 1,220 | |||
Morocco | Rabat | 1,351 | 1,072 | 1,091 | 1,235 | 1,457 | ||||
Mexico | Mexico city | 1,395 | 1,567 | 1,331 | 1,073 | 1,665 | 2,578 | |||
Sierra Leone | Kenema | 2,027 | 1,947 | 2,256 | 1,622 | 1,988 | 2,303 | |||
Sudan | Kassala | 4,614 | 4,867 | 4,906 | 4,910 | 4,789 | 6,000 | 6,000 | ||
South Sudan | Juba | 6,071 | 5,819 | 5,255 | ||||||
Turkey | Istanbul | 13,784 | 5,674 | 2,995 | 2,979 | 2,039 | 1,737 | 2,805 | 2,772 | 2,305 |
Pakistan | Islamabad | 34,408 | 35,227 | 34,316 | 35,567 | 36,787 | 32,156 | 32,940 | 35,041 | |
Somalia | Hargeisa | 8,942 | 9.224 | 6,694 | 3,741 | 2,563 | 1,546 | |||
Zimbabwe | Harare | 1,198 | 15,265 | 1,099 | 1,040 | 1,054 | 1,222 | 1,370 | ||
Sierra Leone | Freetown | 1,824 | 2.224 | 2.234 | 1,881 | 1,686 | 2,821 | |||
Afghanistan | Kabul | 60,881 | 55,491 | 130,761 | 147.037 | 133,426 | 13,470 | 38,740 | 30,670 | 34,517 |
Niger | Niamey | 5,258 | 8,026 | 7,038 | ||||||
Kenya | Nairobi | 51,270 | 50,400 | 53,373 | 52,472 | 46,607 | 46,316 | 36,515 | 35,083 | 35.007 |
Gabon | Moanda | 1,078 | 1,467 | 1,506 | 1,562 | 1,660 | 1,551 | |||
Mozambique | Maputo | 2,368 | 2,367 | 2,380 | 2,371 | 1,693 | 1,530 | 1,524 | 1,516 | 1,297 |
Togo | Lomé | 2,530 | 1,802 | 6,588 | 3,206 | 660 | 622 | 1,582 | 1,460 | 1,770 |
Nigeria | Lagos | 964 | 1,707 | 3,097 | 5.114 | 5,301 | 4,975 | 4,385 | 3,492 | 4,400 |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | 190,621 | 260,552 | 101,836 | 97,618 | 92,857 | 76,419 | 45.998 | 39,511 | 46,356 |
Rwanda | Kigali | 2,320 | 2,051 | 1.933 | 2,061 | 2,060 | 1,962 | 2,413 | 3,324 | 6,775 |
Sudan | Khartoum | 72.017 | 36,260 | 31,969 | 10,661 | 9,782 | 31,325 | 18,241 | 911,664 | |
Venezuela | Caracas | 1,846 | 1,633 | 1,435 | 1,148 | |||||
Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh City | 7,200 | 7,200 | 7,200 | 7,200 | 7,200 | 7,200 | |||
Yemen | Aden | 50.092 | 50,981 | 67.710 | 140,532 | 23,596 | 13,932 | 13,834 | 14,134 | 13,102 |
Yemen | 'Amran | 71,548 | 41,918 | 39,780 | 40,452 | 37,387 | 30,000 | |||
Yemen | Sana'a | 92,741 | 87,378 | 82,369 | 77,156 | 51,038 | 46,853 | 24,427 | 23,454 | 21,136 |
Yemen | Al Mukalla | 9,306 | 8,810 | 8,662 | 8.107 | 5,757 | 2,646 | 2,646 | 2,646 | 692 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/urban-refugees.html
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/statisticalyearbook/2014-annex-tables.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2013/annex_tables.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2012/2012_Statistical_Yearbook_annex_tables_v1.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2011/2011_Statistical_Yearbook_annex_tables_v1.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2010/2011-SYB10-annex-tables.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2009/2009-Statistical-Yearbook-Annex-Tables.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2008/08-TPOC-TB_v5_external_PW.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2007/annextables.zip
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/static/statistical_yearbook/2006/annextables.zip