As of end June 2010, there are some 88,900 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR in Malaysia.

• 82,200 are from Myanmar, comprising some 38,700 Chins, 10,000 Rohingyas, 7,000 Myanmar Muslims, 3,800 Mon, 3,600 Kachins and other ethnic minorities from Myanmar.
• There are some 6,800 refugees and asylum-seekers from other countries, including some 3,600 Sri Lankans, 960 Somalis, 600 Iraqis and 520 Afghans.

70% of refugees and asylum-seekers are men, while 30% are women. There are some 19,100 children below the age of 18.

There is 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.

For more refugee stories in statistics, visit the UNHCR global website. UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. This site provides 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.