What is the average time refugees spend in camps?

The average number of days people spend in detention (now 689 days) is at its highest ever recorded.

What percentage of refugees live in camps?

Approximately 22 percent of the world’s refugee population live in refugee camps – an estimated 6.6 million people. Among them, 4.5 million reside in planned and managed camps and approximately 2 million are sheltered in self-settled camps.

How many refugees were in the Vietnam War?

In the months following the fall of Saigon, U.S President Gerald Ford and Congress authorized the evacuation and resettlement in the United States of approximately 140,000 refugees from South Vietnam and Cambodia.

How many Vietnamese refugees died?

Estimates of the number of Vietnamese boat people who died at sea can only be estimated. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, between 200,000 and 400,000 boat people died at sea.

Where did Cambodian refugees go?

From 1981 to 1991, the guerrilla war against the Vietnamese and Cambodian government continued and hundreds of thousands of Cambodians continued to reside in refugee camps in Thailand or on the border with Thailand. About 260,000 of the refugees were resettled abroad, more than one-half of them in the United States.

Where did Vietnamese refugees go?

The United States is by far the most popular destination for Vietnamese living abroad, according to mid-2020 estimates from the United Nations Population Division. Japan is home to the next largest population of Vietnamese immigrants (336,000), followed by China (303,000), Australia (270,000), and Canada (182,000).

Which are the world’s top 10 refugee host countries?

The ten host countries with the highest number of refugees are:

Turkey (3.7 million)
Jordan (2.9 million)
Lebanon (1.4 million)
Pakistan (1.4 million)
Uganda (1.1 million)
Germany (1 million)
Iran (979,400)
Ethiopia (921.00)