Nation Number of Stateless People
1) Myanmar: 1.3 million
2) Ivory Coast: 700,000
3) Thailand: 500,000
4) Latvia: 225,000
5) Dominican Republic: 200,000
6) Russia: 190,000
7) Syria: 180,000
8) Kuwait: 170,000
9) Iraq: 130,000
10) Estonia: 90,000

 

The international legal definition of a stateless person is set out in Article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, which defines a stateless person as “a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law”. This means that a stateless person is someone who does not have a nationality of any country. Some people are born stateless, while others become stateless over the course of their lives. (United Nations Relief Agency).

Reference: Thomson Reuter, Financial Times, November 15, 2014.
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