Statistics on Uprooted Peoples - Europe

There were 569,200 refugees and asylum seekers in Europe, mostly from Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, at the end of 2006.

Principal European sources of refugees
Croatia	57,300

Russia was host to 187,400 refugees, principally from Afghanistan and Georgia.

Church World Service resettled 297 refugees from Europe (all from the former Soviet Union) in Fiscal Year 2007 (Oct. 1, 2006-Sept. 30, 2007).

Back to map

Dr. Makhmud Akhmedov, Difuza Akhmedova, and Ayvas Akhmedov, Meskhetian Turks resettled to the U.S. from Krasnodar Krai, Russia, by Church World Service.

Photo: Carol Fouke-Mpoyo

Ruined home in burned out rural village of Rore, Bosnia

A house being built in Canton 10, Bosnia-Herzegovina, as part of a CWS-supported shelter project.

Photo: Vitali Vorona/CWS

Back to map • Back to top