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Ingo Gunther

The 23 million refugees officially recognized by the UN are equal in number to the inhabitants of Venezuela or Iraq, and account for a population even larger than that of Australia. However, the worldwide refugee population of non-registered refugees and displaced persons may actually be much higher. In its 1990 report, the United States Committee on Refugees estimated the number to be 47 million, almost as many refugees as resulted from World War II. Those 50 million refugees at the end of the war were mostly Europeans, who were absorbed relatively quickly by other Western nations. Today's heterogeneous refugee population is a global phenomenon comprising widely diverging cultures that resist simple assimilation. Since 1983, this group has been the fastest growing segment of the world population, with an average of 10 - 20% increase per year. Dotting the globe, these strangers account for 1% of the world population and are ranked twentieth on the list of the most populated countries (out of 220). The Refugee Republic has as many inhabitants as Turkey, nearly as many as Italy or England, and twice as many as Canada. If this trend would continue in a linear fashion, the Refugee Republic would surpass the United States or Russia within ten years.

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