Under international law

International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

, a refugee

Refugee

A refugee is a person who outside her country of origin or habitual residence because she has suffered persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because she is a member of a persecuted 'social group'. Such a person may be referred to as an 'asylum seeker' until...

is a person

Person

A person is a human being, or an entity that has certain capacities or attributes strongly associated with being human , for example in a particular moral or legal context...

 who, being outside his country

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 of nationality

Nationality

Nationality is membership of a nation or sovereign state, usually determined by their citizenship, but sometimes by ethnicity or place of residence, or based on their sense of national identity....

or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution.

Below is a list of countries' refugee population:

Rank	Country / Territory	Total Population	Refugee Population	Natives per Refugee
—	World		13,599,900
1	Palestinian territories	3,761,646	1,828,100
2	Jordan	6,316,000	621,600
3	Syria	21,906,000	1,763,900
4	Lebanon	4,224,000	333,500
5	Chad	11,206,000	330,500
6	Iran	74,196,000	993,600
7	Kuwait	2,985,000	40,000
8	Cyprus	801,600	10,000
9	Botswana	1,950,000	23,100
10	Saudi Arabia	25,721,000	291,100
11	Republic of the Congo	3,683,000	40,000
12	Pakistan		1,775,600
13	Djibouti	864,000	8,800
14	Ecuador	14,036,775	135,000
15	Kenya	39,802,000	377,400
16	Mauritania	3,291,000	30,600
17	Gabon	1,475,000	13,100
18	The Gambia	1,705,000	14,900
19	Venezuela	28,456,383	211,000
20	Tanzania	43,739,000	321,900
21	Zambia	12,935,000	88,900
22	Serbia	9,850,000	66,600
23	Malaysia	27,468,000	171,500
24	Yemen	23,580,000	145,700
25	Rwanda	9,998,000	59,000
26	Thailand	63,389,730	368,800
27	Sudan	42,272,000	233,900
28	Namibia	2,171,000	11,700
29	South Africa	49,320,000	256,200
30	Guinea-Bissau	1,611,000	8,300
31	Panama	3,454,000	17,200
32	Uganda	32,710,000	155,400
33	Cameroon	19,522,000	91,900
34	Nepal	29,331,000	121,300
35	Costa Rica	4,579,000	18,600
36	Burundi	8,303,000	26,300
37	Greece	11,257,285	34,300
38	Sierra Leone	5,696,000	17,200
39	Libya	6,420,000	18,900
40	'	66,020,000	192,700
41	Senegal	12,534,000	35,900
42	Guinea	10,069,000	28,100
43	Algeria	34,895,000	96,500
44	Norway	4,834,000	13,300
45	Sweden	9,292,359	23,400
46	Israel	7,434,000	16,500
48	Central African Republic	4,422,000	9,100
49	Egypt	77,116,112	152,400
50	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,767,000	7,400
51	Switzerland	7,739,100	13,700
52	Ethiopia	79,221,000	135,200
53	Somalia	9,133,000	15,300
54	Republic of Macedonia	2,048,620	3,200
55	Papua New Guinea	6,732,000	10,000
56	Austria	8,355,260	12,200
57	Armenia	3,230,100	4,500
58	Iraq	30,747,000	39,500
59	Côte d'Ivoire	21,075,000	26,300
60	Spain	45,929,476	5,600
61	Bangladesh	162,221,000	193,100
62	Togo	6,619,000	6,900
63	Niger	15,290,000	15,700
64	Eritrea	5,073,000	5,000
65	Benin	8,935,000	8,400
66	Liberia	3,476,608	18,800
67	Angola	18,498,000	15,900
68	Mali	13,010,000	11,100
70	Finland	5,343,608	4,200
71	Ghana	23,837,000	18,700
72	Malawi	15,263,000	11,600
73	Russia		107,000
74	Netherlands	16,535,207	11,800
75	Germany	82,046,000	593,800
76	Belgium	10,754,528	7,100
77	Independent State of Croatia	4,435,056	2,600
78	Mozambique	22,894,000	12,900
79	United States		161,200
80	Denmark	5,519,441	2,800
81	Australia		9,900
82	United Kingdom	61,634,599	26,600
83	India		411,000
84	Early Modern France	65,073,482	22,300
85	Azerbaijan	8,629,900	2,800
86	Italy	60,088,880	19,000
87	Zimbabwe	12,523,000	3,900
88	Czech Republic	10,467,542	3,200
89	Kazakhstan	15,776,492	4,500
90	Turkey	71,517,100	18,200
91	'		332,000
92	Poland	38,100,700	5,700
93	Brazil		21,400
94	Vietnam	85,789,573	9,500
95	Nigeria	154,729,000	9,200
96	South Korea	48,333,000	2,500
97	Mexico	107,550,697	3,600
98	Japan	127,590,000	3,100
99	Indonesia	229,965,000	unknown	unknown
100	Philippines	92,222,660	unknown	unknown
101	Myanmar (Burma)	50,020,000	unknown	unknown
102	Ukraine	46,029,281	unknown	unknown
103	Colombia	45,064,807	unknown	unknown
104	Argentina	40,134,425	unknown	unknown
105	Morocco	31,567,613	unknown	unknown
106	Peru	29,132,013	unknown	unknown
107	Afghanistan	28,150,000	unknown	unknown
108	Uzbekistan	27,488,000	unknown	unknown
109	North Korea	24,051,706	unknown	unknown
110	Republic of China	23,069,345	unknown	unknown
111	Kingdom of Romania	21,498,616	unknown	unknown
112	Sri Lanka	20,238,000	unknown	unknown
113	Madagascar	19,625,000	unknown	unknown
114	Chile		unknown	unknown
115	Burkina Faso	15,757,000	unknown	unknown
116	Cambodia	14,805,000	unknown	unknown
117	Guatemala	14,027,000	unknown	unknown
118	Cuba	11,204,000	unknown	unknown
119	Portugal	10,627,250	unknown	unknown
120	Tunisia	10,327,800	unknown	unknown
121	Dominican Republic	10,090,000	unknown	unknown
122	Haiti	10,033,000	unknown	unknown
123	Hungary	10,031,208	unknown	unknown
124	Bolivia	9,863,000	unknown	unknown
125	Belarus	9,671,900	unknown	unknown
126	Kingdom of Bulgaria	7,606,551	unknown	unknown
127	Honduras	7,466,000	unknown	unknown
128	Hong Kong	7,008,900	unknown	unknown
129	Tajikistan	6,952,000	unknown	unknown
130	Paraguay	6,349,000	unknown	unknown
131	Laos	6,320,000	unknown	unknown
132	El Salvador	6,163,000	unknown	unknown
133	Nicaragua	5,743,000	unknown	unknown
134	Kyrgyzstan	5,482,000	unknown	unknown
135	Slovakia	5,413,548	unknown	unknown
136	Turkmenistan	5,110,000	unknown	unknown
137	Singapore	4,839,400	unknown	unknown
138	United Arab Emirates	4,599,000	unknown	unknown
139	Republic of Ireland	4,422,100	unknown	unknown
140	Georgia (country)	4,385,400	unknown	unknown
141	New Zealand		unknown	unknown
142	Puerto Rico	3,982,000	unknown	unknown
143	Moldova	3,567,500	unknown	unknown
144	Uruguay	3,361,000	unknown	unknown
145	Lithuania	3,349,872	unknown	unknown
146	Albania	3,170,000	unknown	unknown
147	Oman	2,845,000	unknown	unknown
148	Jamaica	2,719,000	unknown	unknown
149	Mongolia	2,671,000	unknown	unknown
150	Latvia	2,257,300	unknown	unknown
151	Lesotho	2,067,000	unknown	unknown
152	Slovenia	2,045,249	unknown	unknown
153	Qatar	1,409,000	unknown	unknown
154	Estonia	1,340,415	unknown	unknown
155	Trinidad and Tobago	1,339,000	unknown	unknown
156	Mauritius	1,288,000	unknown	unknown
157	Swaziland	1,185,000	unknown	unknown
158	East Timor	1,134,000	unknown	unknown
159	Fiji	849,000	unknown	unknown
160	Bahrain	791,000	unknown	unknown
161	Guyana	762,000	unknown	unknown
162	Bhutan	697,000	unknown	unknown
163	Comoros	676,000	unknown	unknown
164	Equatorial Guinea	676,000	unknown	unknown
165	Kingdom of Montenegro	624,000	unknown	unknown
166	Macau	546,200	unknown	unknown
167	Solomon Islands	523,000	unknown	unknown
168	Suriname	520,000	unknown	unknown
169	Western Sahara	513,000	unknown	unknown
170	Cape Verde	506,000	unknown	unknown
171	Luxembourg	493,500	unknown	unknown
172	Malta	413,627	unknown	unknown
173	Brunei	400,000	unknown	unknown
174	The Bahamas	342,000	unknown	unknown
175	Belize	322,100	unknown	unknown
176	Iceland	319,246	unknown	unknown
177	Maldives	309,000	unknown	unknown
178	Barbados	256,000	unknown	unknown
179	Vanuatu	240,000	unknown	unknown
180	Netherlands Antilles	198,000	unknown	unknown
181	Samoa	179,000	unknown	unknown
182	Guam	178,000	unknown	unknown
183	Saint Lucia	172,000	unknown	unknown
184	São Tomé and Príncipe	163,000	unknown	unknown
185	Federated States of Micronesia	111,000	unknown	unknown
186	United States Virgin Islands	110,000	unknown	unknown
187	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,000	unknown	unknown
188	Aruba	107,000	unknown	unknown
189	Grenada	104,000	unknown	unknown
190	Tonga	104,000	unknown	unknown
191	Kiribati	98,000	unknown	unknown
192	Jersey	89,300	unknown	unknown
193	Antigua and Barbuda	88,000	unknown	unknown
194	Northern Mariana Islands	87,000	unknown	unknown
195	Andorra	86,000	unknown	unknown
196	Seychelles	84,000	unknown	unknown
197	Isle of Man	80,000	unknown	unknown
198	Dominica	67,000	unknown	unknown
199	American Samoa	67,000	unknown	unknown
200	Bermuda	65,000	unknown	unknown
201	Marshall Islands	62,000	unknown	unknown
202	Guernsey	61,811	unknown	unknown
203	Greenland	57,000	unknown	unknown
204	Cayman Islands	56,000	unknown	unknown
205	Saint Kitts and Nevis	52,000	unknown	unknown
206	Faroe Islands	48,940	unknown	unknown
207	Liechtenstein	35,593	unknown	unknown
208	Monaco	33,000	unknown	unknown
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	33,000	unknown	unknown
210	Gibraltar	31,000	unknown	unknown
211	San Marino	30,800	unknown	unknown
212	British Virgin Islands	23,000	unknown	unknown
213	Cook Islands	20,000	unknown	unknown
214	Palau	20,000	unknown	unknown
215	Anguilla	15,000	unknown	unknown
216	Tuvalu	10,000	unknown	unknown
217	Nauru	10,000	unknown	unknown
218	Saint Helena	6,600	unknown	unknown
219	Montserrat	5,900	unknown	unknown
220	Falkland Islands	3,000	unknown	unknown
221	Niue	1,500	unknown	unknown
222	Tokelau	1,400	unknown	unknown
223	Vatican City	800	unknown	unknown
224	Pitcairn Islands	50	unknown	unknown