Image: Asylum-seekers-by-country-of-origin

Description: A world map showing the numbers of asylum seekers by country of origin.    40000 asylum seekers    30000 asylum seekers    20000 asylum seekers    10000 asylum seekers    <10000 asylum seekers (or no data) Colombia is the country of origin of the greatest number of asylum seekers - 43,100 to 44,200. Countries are coloured according to their fraction, X, of this value. A country with value X is coloured rgb(224,224(1-X),224(1-X)), leading to the country with the highest value being coloured bright red, while a country with a value of zero is coloured rgb(224,224,224), the standard Wikipedia grey. The data come from the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report 2009. The specific table can be found here: Asylum seekers by country of origin (thousands) iraq is the country of origin of the greatest number of asylum 279,000 externaly and 280,000 + internaly. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Table_D.pdf Feel free to update this map as new data become available, but please retain the current liberal licensing terms.
Title: Asylum-seekers-by-country-of-origin
Credit: Based on File:BlankMap-World6.svg
Author: Stephen Morley
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