It is awful to leave your country … family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there – you have to leave everything.
This map shows the origins of asylum seeker in the world in 2018. The origins are the territories these people came from.
The highest number of asylum-seekers in 2018 come from Venezuela (>460 000) , followed by Afghanistan (>310 000.), Iraq (>250 000), Syria (>130 000) and Democratic Republic Congo (>130 000).
According to UNHCR’s report: At the end of 2018, there were approximately 3.5 million people around the world waiting for a decision on their asylum claims.
