+++ The Indian government estimates that by 2008
India would need 2.2 million computer specialists.
+++ The UNHCR lists 50 countries who
host some 4.8 million refugees under asylum.
+++ number of people who were deported from Germany:
1988: 3.000 - 1994: 30.000 - 1999: 40.000.
+++ The UNHCR estimates that the war in Afgahnistan
will make 1.5 Millionen people leave the country to
Pakistan within the next months.
+++ At the end of 2000, Asia hosted the largest refugee
population (44.6%), followed by Africa (30%), Europe
(19.3%) North America (5.2%), Oceania (0.6%) and Latin
America (0.3%).
+++ Compared to the size of the national population,
the main refugee hosting countries during 2000 were Armenia,
with 80 refugees per 1,000 inhabitants, followed
by Guinea (59 per 1,000) Yugoslavia (46 per 1,000)
and Congo (43 per 1,000).
+++ The number of asylum applications submitted in 38 mostly industrialized
countries fell from 657,700 in 1999 to 645,800 in 2000, a 2% decrease.
12 % of asylum decisions taken during 2000 resulted in refugee
status, 9% were permitted to stay on "humanitarian grounds".
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