Statistics on Uprooted Peoples

Total Number of Refugees and Asylum Seekers	13.9 million
Total Number of Internally Displaced Persons	21 million
New Refugees and Asylum Seekers	1.1 million*
New Internally Displaced Persons	2.1 million*
Refugees Warehoused Five Years or More	8.8 million**
Total Number of Refugees Resettled	69,400

CWS/IRP resettled 4,772 refugees in Fiscal Year 2007 (Oct. 1, 2006-Sept. 30, 2007)

* Represents persons who fled their homes during 2006, including those who fled and returned within the year.

** including 2,478,700 Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and Kuwait; 3,238,200 Afghans in Pakistan, Iran, the Russian Federation, and India; 586,800 Burmese in Thailand, India, Malaysia, and Bangladesh; 397,900 Congolese (DRC) in Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, et al; 397,300 Sudanese in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, et al; 353,000 Burundians in Tanzania; 296,700 Somalis in Kenya, Yemen, and Ethiopia, and 243,900 Eritreans in Sudan and Ethiopia. 8,779,700 of all warehoused refugees have been warehoused for 10 years or more.

Note: Except for CWS Immigration and Refugee Program resettlement figures, all statistics are from World Refugee Survey 2007 unless otherwise indicated, and are as of Dec. 31, 2006. Order the survey from the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants at www.refugees.org, where a full on-line version also is available.