Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 23 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of Iraqi citizens who have become refugees in countries neighbouring Iraq since the start of the war in Iraq in 2003.
The total number of Iraqi refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), currently stands at 423,355 people, including 72,295 refugees who arrived in 2006 and before. There are approximately 195,428 Iraq refugees in the region, which covers the main countries of asylum: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran.
UNHCR figures indicate that there are currently 139,586 Iraq refugees living in Syria; 3,623 in Iran; 30,630 in Jordan; 7,955 in Lebanon; and 5,235 in Turkey.
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