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US Refugee Program: Statistics

Country of Origin

Admissions
Ceiling

Admitted
as of 5/31/08

AFRICA

16,000

5,530

EAST ASIA

20,000

9,430

EUROPE

3,000

1,456

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

3,000

2,584

NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA

28,000

9,407

UNALLOCATED RESERVE

10,000

0

 

 

 

   TOTAL

80,000

28,407

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 5/31/08
AFRICA 16,000  
Angola   0
Benin   0
Burkina Faso   0
Burundi   2,098
Cameroon   2
Central African Rep.   0
Chad   0
Congo   41
Dem Rep Congo   245
Equatorial Guinea   0
Eritrea   124
Ethiopia   207
Gambia   6
Ghana   0
Guinea   2
Ivory Coast   29
Liberia   871
Mauritania   20
Niger   1
Nigeria   29
Rwanda   32
Sierra Leone   50
Somalia   1,377
Sudan   273
Togo   106
Uganda   17
Zimbabwe   0
Total Africa 16,000 5,530

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 5/31/08
EAST ASIA
20,000  
Burma   8,620
Cambodia   8
China   34
Korea, North   22
Laos   43
Thailand   0
Vietnam   703
Total East Asia 20,000 9,430

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 5/31/08
EUROPE
3,000
 
Armenia   9
Austria   0
Azerbaijan   21
Belarus   61
Bosnia   0
Estonia   2
France   0
Georgia   13
Kazakhstan   41
Kyrgyzstan   11
Latvia   2
Lithuania   0
Moldova   238
Russia   255
Serbia   1
Tajikistan   2
Turkmenistan   2
Ukraine   750
Uzbekistan   48
Total Europe 3,000 1,456

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 5/31/08
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 3,000  
Colombia   61
Cuba   2,517
Ecuador   3
Venezuela   3
Total Latin America & Caribbean 3,000 2,584

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 5/31/08
NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA 28,000  
Afghanistan   358
Bhutan   675
Egypt   2
Iran   3,525
Iraq   4,742
Israel   0
Jordan   0
Lebanon   2
Morocco   3
Nepal   3
Pakistan   64
Palestine   9
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)   1
Syria   16
Tibet   7
Yemen   0
Total Near East & South Asia 28,000 9,407

 

Updated June 6, 2008

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