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Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off

Appendix A: Nationalities by regional classification

Five regions for the nationality of unauthorized immigrants are used in this report. They come from two different data sources: (1) labor force surveys and (2) asylum seeker data for those with pending decisions. A single asterisk (*) indicates a country or territory that appears in the country list of regions coded in labor force surveys, but not in the country list of asylum seekers with a pending decision. On the other hand, a double asterisk (**) indicates a country or territory appears in the country list of asylum seekers with a pending decision but was not part of the country list for regions coded in labor force surveys.  (Note that some countries in the pending asylum seeker list had no asylum seekers in any EU-EFTA country between 2014 and 2017. Also, asylum seekers with unknown or no nationality (stateless) were considered to have an unknown nationality.)

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda Anguilla* Argentina Aruba* Barbados Bahamas Belize Bermuda* Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands* Canada Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands* Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Islands* French Southern Territories Grenada Greenland* Guatemala Guyana Honduras Haiti Jamaica Montserrat Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico St. Barthelemy* St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Martin* St. Pierre and Miquelon* St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands* United States Uruguay Venezuela

Asia-Pacific

Afghanistan Australia Bangladesh Brunei Bhutan Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cook Islands** East Timor Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia* India Indonesia Japan Kiribati Laos Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Mongolia Nauru Nepal New Caledonia* New Zealand North Korea Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Pitcairn* Samoa Singapore Solomon Islands South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam Wallis and Futuna*

Europe

Andorra Albania Bosnia-Herzegovina Belarus Faroe Islands* Gibraltar* Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Kosovo Monaco Montenegro Republic of Macedonia Moldova Russia San Marino Serbia Turkey Ukraine Vatican City

Middle East-North Africa

Algeria Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Egypt Georgia Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Palestine terr. Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Tajikistan Tunisia Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Western Sahara** Yemen

Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic iiiof the Congo Djibouti Ethiopia Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte* Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan St. Helena* Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

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