Statistics on Uprooted Peoples - Asia and the Pacific

There were 3,869,700 refugees and asylum seekers in South, Central and East Asia and the Pacific as of December 31, 2006. Most of them came from other countries within this vast region.

Principal Asian and Pacific sources of refugees
Afghanistan	3,260,300
Burma (Myanmar)	693,300
Vietnam	308,000
China	158,700
Bhutan	119,100
Sri Lanka	108,900
Nepal	102,500
Philippines	69,400

Pakistan was host to 2,161,500 refugees from other countries; India to 435,900; Thailand to 408,400; China to 335,400; Bangladesh to 178,100, and Malaysia to 155,700.

Church World Service resettled 1,335 refugees from Indochina in Fiscal Year 2007 (Oct. 1, 2006-Sept. 30, 2007).

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Karenni refugee children in a camp supported by the Thailand Burma Border Consortium. CWS is the largest private non-governmental donor, providing blankets and building materials.

Photo: Erol Kekic/CWS

Afghan refugee mother and child at a clinic for malnourished children in a Basic Health Unit in Nangahar Province set up with assistance from Church World Service. Many of the refugees have returned from Mansehra, Pakistan. Only 12 percent of the population has access to basic health care in some areas.

Photo: E. Kekic/CWS

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