Countries With the Highest Refugees Originating

Every country with a figure for refugees originating, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Syrian Arab Republic (24,124), South Sudan (19,179) and Eritrea (15,593). The middle country of the 202 has 20.5.

What this measures

Refugees originating from the country, per 100,000 people. Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. For this measure, higher is worse.

People recognised as refugees abroad, compared with the population of the country they left. It is zero for most of the world and in the thousands for a dozen countries at war. So it is put on a log scale (which squeezes very large values together) wherever it is used for adjusting, and its links lean on those few countries. The "leave one out" check shows by how much. It has a "better" direction and sits under governance. But it is an outcome of governance, not a measure of it, so it is kept out of the governance score.

A log scale measures change in percentage terms.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2019–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on refugees originating

• Countries With the Lowest Refugees Originating
• Refugees originating by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.