Annual Asylum Numbers Plunge in Industrialized States says UNHCR

2004-02-25

GENEVA – The total number of asylum seekers arriving in 36 industrialized countries last year fell by 20 percent, to 463,000, the UN refugee agency announced Tuesday. It was the lowest total since 1997, and the third lowest since 1988.

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