Ecuador's refugees: will Assange be accepted for asylum?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jun/20/ecuador-asylum-assange-refugees Version 0 of 1. Ecuador has a total population "of concern" to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees of <strong>144,494 people</strong> - according to the latest data out this week. That is the second highest number in Latin America after Venezuela. And, compared to its population of 14m people, it has a proportionately high number of refugees - <strong>8.5</strong> for every 1,000 people. That compares to 7 for Venezuela and only 3.1 for the UK. The majority of Ecuador's refugees - <strong>122,587 people</strong> - come from neighbouring Colombia. It's not a certainty Julian Assange will join them either. Ecuador rejected <strong>9,584</strong> applications for asylum in 2011 - that's <strong>78%</strong> of all the decisions it made that year and <strong>68%</strong> of all applications. The country still has <strong>21,558</strong> pending asylum cases where it hasn't decided yet. But Ecuador also produces refugees too, something which may not have occurred to Assange. <strong>909</strong> people at the end of 2011. We will shortly publish the report's full data More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data <input type="text" name="q" value=""/> <input type="submit" value="Search for data"/> <strong></strong> • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • <strong>Flickr</strong> Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group<br />• Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk <strong>• Get the A-Z of data<br />• More at the Datastore directory</strong><br /><strong>• Follow us on Twitter<br />• Like us on Facebook</strong> |