[1] "2009 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons" UNHCR REPORT - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
UNHCR definition of 'Refugee': Persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection. In the absence of Government figures, UNHCR has estimated the refugee population in 24 industrialized countries based on 10 years of individual refugee recognition.
UNHCR definition of 'People In Refugee-Like Situation': This category is descriptive in nature and includes groups of persons who are outside their country or territory of origin and who face protection risks similar to those of refugees, but for whom refugee status has, for practical or other reasons, not been ascertained.
This complete dataset was published by UNHCR on June.15.2010 & last retrieved by BlatantWorld.com on November.10.2010.
[2] "UNRWA In Figures - As Of 1st January 2010" [PDF] - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNHCR). We have added the total number of Palestinian refugees, to the overall UNHCR total for Palestine.
*NOTE The Palestinian refugees are mostly being cared for by the UNRWA, so their numbers will not show up in the 'Assisted by UNHCR' column, as the UNHCR does not deal with Palestinian refugees in the Near East (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine only), which is where most of the Palestinian refugees are currently based. The figures shown in this column above only relate to those cared for by the UNHCR in other countries.