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Refugees Welcome Survey 2016 -The Results

Refugees Welcome Survey 2016 -The Results

 

19th May 2016, 12:26:35 UTC

Refugees Welcome Index

The Refugees Welcome Index ranks 27 countries across all continents based on people’s willingness to let refugees live in their countries, towns, neighbourhoods and homes.

Refugees Welcome Index
The Refugees Welcome Index ranks countries on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 = all respondents would refuse refugees entry to the country and 100 = all respondents would accept refugees into their neighbourhood or home.

Refugees Welcome Survey

The Refugees Welcome Index is based on a global survey of more than 27,000 people carried out by the internationally renowned strategy consultancy GlobeScan. The survey asked people: how closely would you personally accept people fleeing war or persecution?

Refugees Welcome
Globally, 80% of respondents would accept people fleeing war or persecution in their country.
Refugees Welcome
Globally, 10% of respondents said they would accept refugees in their home.

The Refugees Welcome Survey also asked two other questions about access to asylum and current refugee policies.

Refugees Welcome
Globally, 73% of respondents agree that people should be able to take refuge in other countries to escape from war or persecution.
Refugees Welcome
Globally, 66% of respondents agree their national government should do more to help refugees fleeing war or persecution.

 Full data sets are available here.