Location name | Source | Data date | Population | |
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Argentina | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.5% | 3,826 |
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.0% | 157 |
Brazil | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 10.8% | 90,788 |
Canada | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.1% | 1,000 |
Chile | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.3% | 2,763 |
Colombia | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 2.3% | 19,587 |
Costa Rica | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.6% | 5,422 |
Curaçao | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.0% | 285 |
Dominican Republic | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.0% | 275 |
Ecuador | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.5% | 4,031 |
Mexico | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.9% | 7,362 |
Panama | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.3% | 2,596 |
Paraguay | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.1% | 795 |
Peru | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 63.3% | 532,303 |
Spain | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 2.3% | 19,065 |
Trinidad and Tobago | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 2.0% | 16,664 |
United States of America | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 15.4% | 129,667 |
Uruguay | UNHCR | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.1% | 636 |
Various | UNHCR, Government | 31 Dec 2020 | 0.5% | 4,281 |
Location name | Source | Data date | Population | |
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Argentina | Government | 21 Apr 2021 | 9.6% | 251,200 |
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Government | 15 Mar 2021 | 0.1% | 3,922 |
Brazil | Government | 31 Oct 2020 | 5.6% | 145,462 |
Canada | Government | 31 Mar 2018 | 0.2% | 5,705 |
Chile | Government | 10 Mar 2021 | 23.3% | 610,035 |
Colombia | Government | 31 Jan 2021 | 29.0% | 759,584 |
Costa Rica | Government | 31 Mar 2021 | 0.3% | 7,046 |
Curaçao | Government | 31 Dec 2018 | 0.0% | 1,291 |
Dominican Republic | Government | 30 Jun 2019 | 0.3% | 7,946 |
Ecuador | Government | 30 Aug 2020 | 7.7% | 202,489 |
Mexico | Government | 10 Jul 2020 | 1.6% | 42,763 |
Panama | Government | 12 Apr 2021 | 3.0% | 77,425 |
Paraguay | Government | 20 Apr 2021 | 0.1% | 2,654 |
Peru | Government | 12 Feb 2021 | 17.8% | 465,858 |
Trinidad and Tobago | Government | 30 Jun 2019 | 0.6% | 16,523 |
Uruguay | Government | 16 Apr 2021 | 0.7% | 19,171 |
ACNUR (UNHCR) Perú | |
ACNUR Peru Website | |
ACNUR Perú | |
Material: Capacitación en Respuesta Humanitaria Inclusiva | |
OIM Perú | |
The right to education of people on the move: UNESCO calls on Latin American and Caribbean countries to provide answers beyond migratory emergency responses | |
The conclusions of the regional forum “Education beyond borders: Regional solidarity for the guarantee of the right to education for people on the move” were released by UNESCO on October 17, 2019. The document issues a call to build cross-border regional educational responses in a complex context of large-scale international movements that cannot be successfully addressed solely through national solutions, UNESCO states. |
Over 117,000 asylum claims from Venezuelans have already been filed in 2018, surpassing the total number of claims made in all of 2017. | |
20 Jun 2018 | |
Peru is now the largest refugee hosting country in Latin America, with 126,997 asylum applications since 2014. | |
20 Jun 2018 | |
The mass registration of Venezuelans irregularly present in Colombia, supported by UNHCR and IOM, has concluded with 442,462 individuals registered. Key results include the fact that 98.8% lack access to healthcare and only 48.7% of children are enrolled in schools. | |
20 Jun 2018 | |
In Brazil, 527 Venezuelan nationals have been relocated from border regions to Brazilian cities in the country (Cuiabá, Manaus and São Paulo) to ease pressure on border communities and support Venezuelans to begin new lives. | |
20 Jun 2018 | |
More than 340,000 Venezuelans have entered Ecuador since the beginning of 2018 (compared to 287,000 arrivals registered for the whole of 2017). | |
20 Jun 2018 | |
On April 6th, the Colombian Government began a mass registration of undocumented Venezuelans in Colombia. UNHCR and IOM are jointly supporting the process, providing training to local officials, technical support, equipment, human resources and mass communications. | |
11 Apr 2018 |
UNHCR Press Release, 23 Oct 2019
Joint Press Release by the European Union, UNHCR and IOM Read more
UNHCR Stories, 14 Oct 2019
New measure grants citizenship to the children born to Venezuelan parents on Colombia soil, helping thousands at risk of statelessness. Read more
UNHCR News, 05 Sep 2019
Weakened by hunger, hundreds of Venezuelan refugees and migrants cross the high Andes each day in search of safety in Colombia and beyond. Read more
UNHCR News, 29 Aug 2019
Statement by Eduardo Stein, Joint UNHCR-IOM Special Representative for Venezuelan refugees and migrants Read more
UNHCR News, 19 Aug 2019
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi concluded a four-day visit to Brazil with an urgent appeal for increased international engagement, including by financial institutions and development actors, in the communities hosting Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Read more
UNHCR News, 15 Aug 2019
My visit to Chile – the first by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – comes amidst the largest population movements in Latin America’s recent history. Chile is among the nations most affected by the mass exodus of refugees and migrants from Venezuela, having received around 10 per cen... Read more