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US Refugee Program: Final FY2008 Statistics

Country of Origin

Admissions
Ceiling

FY2008 Admissions

AFRICA

16,000

8,935

EAST ASIA

20,000

19,489

EUROPE

3,000

2,343

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

5,000

4,277

NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA

28,000

25,148

UNALLOCATED RESERVE

8,000

0

 

 

 

   TOTAL

80,000

60,192

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling FY2008 Admissions
AFRICA 16,000  
Burundi   2,889
Cameroon   2
Central African Rep.   56
Chad   23
Congo   197
Dem Rep Congo   727
Eritrea   251
Ethiopia   299
Gambia   6
Guinea   3
Guinea-Bissau   2
Ivory Coast   30
Liberia   992
Mauritania   26
Nigeria   76
Rwanda   108
Senegal   1
Sierra Leone   99
Somalia   2,523
Sudan   375
Tanzania   1
Togo   204
Uganda   42
Zimbabwe   3
Total Africa 16,000 8,935

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling FY2008 Admissions
EAST ASIA
20,000  
Burma   18,139
Cambodia   8
China   43
Korea, North   37
Laos   59
Tibet   7
Vietnam   1,196
Total East Asia 20,000 19,489

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling FY2008 Admissions
EUROPE
3,000
 
Armenia   9
Azerbaijan   30
Belarus   111
Estonia   6
Georgia   20
Kazakhstan   62
Kyrgyzstan   25
Latvia   6
Moldova   487
Russia   426
Serbia   1
Tajikistan   2
Turkmenistan   2
Ukraine   1,022
Uzbekistan   134
Total Europe 3,000 2,343

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling FY2008 Admissions
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 5,000  
Colombia   94
Cuba   4,177
Ecuador   3
Venezuela   3
Total Latin America & Caribbean 5,000 4,277

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling FY2008 Admissions
NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA 28,000  
Afghanistan   576
Bhutan   5,320
Egypt   5
Iran   5,270
Iraq   13,823
Kuwait   1
Lebanon   2
Morocco   3
Nepal   4
Pakistan   104
Palestine   9
Sri Lanka   1
Syria   24
Turkey   6
Total Near East & South Asia 28,000 25,148

 

Final statistics as of October 3, 2008

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