Overview of top 10 asylum producing nations

Every country included on this top ten list shares a profusion of human rights abuses that we may not want to believe but which are part of daily life for the 12 million refugees and asylum seekers and the 21 million internally displaced people in the world.

Every country mentioned has restrictions on basic freedoms, arbitrary and unjust long term detentions without trial and regimes that use violence as a form of control.

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Note: The UN Human Development Index (HDI) is a measure of poverty, education, literacy, life expectancy and other factors for countries worldwide. The higher the score the worse the chance of development for that country.