Seeking Refuge
- Posted by: GOOD , Matt Owens , Jason Bishop
- on November 10, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Wars, famine, and natural disasters are just a few of the reasons people are forced to leave their homes and flee their countries. Around the world, millions of refugees are waiting, sometimes for a lifetime, to return home. Here is a look at who they are.
View Seeking Refuge: A Glance at Refugees Worldwide
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CORRECTION: In response to your comments, we’ve put up a corrected version of this Transparency. What we’ve changed: The circles on the right are now correctly labeled. Earlier, the top and bottom circles’ labels were reversed. The center circle now indicates refugees per 1,000 square kilometers rather than refugees per square kilometer. As well, we’ve corrected the sources. You can view the uncorrected file here.
To clarify a few other questions: On the left side, the refugees are divided by area in which they currently live. For example, of all the refugees in the world living in urban areas, 20 percent live in Europe. According to the UNHCR report upon which this graphic is based, “the 4.4 million Palestinian refugees falling under the mandate of UNRWA are not included in UNHCR statistics. However, in relation to their population size, Jordan, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Syrian Arab Republic all rank among the top refugee-hosting countries or territories.”
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DISCUSSION: 9 Comments
wow. what a great graphic on this topic. You can now get a better perspective on why and where this is happening.
Truly odd and sad that GOOD ignored one of the biggest refugee tragedies.There are around 5 million Palestinian refugees around the world. That’s not a small number to ignore:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees
The graphic says that there are 2,316 refugees/km^2 in Germany. Germany is ~357,000 km^2 itself, which would put the number of refugees at over 820,000,000. This is more than 10 times the population of Germany itself. I agree with the cause of showing the plight of refugees, but please get the numbers right–or at least within a ballpark estimate.
Iran has a GDP of 800billion USD. That chart says Iran has 14 refugees per USD.That would mean Iran has 11.2trillion refugees.China has over a billion people that chart says China has 280 refugees per 1000. That would mean China has 280million refugees.The chart is totally wrong.
This graphic seems misleading and wrong on several accounts…here are official numbers, admittedly from 2003, from the UNHCR:Total: 10.4 millionAfghanistan: 248100Burundi: 574000Sudan: 505000Angola: 433000Somalia: 429000Dem. Rep. Congo: 415000Iraq: 401000Bosnia-Herzegovina: 372000Vietnam: 348000Eritrea: 316000Speaking of which, when you cite the UN’s Human Rights Council as a source, are you sure you don’t mean the UN High Commissioner for Refugees?The “Persons of Concern by Location” graph on the left is not clear – are you saying that while only 1% of people in the Americas are in concern, a full 35% of Europeans are?I believe that the graphics on the right are badly mistaken, party perhaps (for example, in the case of China) due to confusing refugees with Internally Displaced Peoples. While both fall under the UNHCR’s jurisdiction, there is of course a difference. Also, I assume you missed the Palestinian refugees because they are actually handled by the UNRWA and are not counted by the UNHCR.And…you do realize that you’re saying that Switzerland, a country of under eight million inhabitants, is harboring almost fifty million refugees? Seriously, there are some pretty big blunders here.
Dear creator: If you could get the numbers updated/corrected/verified by UNCHR, this would be a GREAT tool! So pretty please do!
What happened to the palestinians, the largest group of refugees?
what happened to the Tibetan refugees?
Thanks MT Palestinian refugees are the perfect examples that was ignored despite it still unsolved, Palestinian refugees have no right to live a normal life even in the countries they were accepted in.