As of end January 2012, there are some 97,000 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR in Malaysia.

 - Some 88,500 are from Myanmar, comprising some 34,400 Chins, 23,000 Rohingyas, 10,500 Myanmar
Muslims, 4,600 Rakhine, 3,800 Mon, 3,300 Kachins and other ethnicities from Myanmar.
 
- There are some 8,200 refugees and asylum-seekers from other countries, including some 4,400
Sri Lankans, 1,000 Somalis, 770 Iraqis and 440 Afghans, and others from other countries.

71% of refugees and asylum-seekers are men, while 29% are women. There are some 19,700
children below the age of 18.

There are also a large number of persons of concern to UNHCR who remain unregistered.
Refugee communities themselves estimate that the population of unregistered refugees and
asylum-seekers to be some 10,000 persons.

UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. Access data, trends and statistical reports on the "People of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced and stateless persons in more than 150 countries.

For more interesting figures about the people we help worldwide, go to Figures at A Glance.

For more refugee stories in statistics, visit the UNHCR Statistics page.