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Kathmandu, Aug 8: In 2024, a total of 1,437 Nepali nationals applied for refugee status in Brazil, placing Nepal sixth among countries whose citizens sought asylum in the South American nation.

This data comes from Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security’s annual report, Refugees in Numbers 2025. The report shows that Nepalis trailed only behind applicants from Venezuela, Cuba, Angola, India, and Vietnam.

According to the report, Brazil received 68,159 refugee status applications in total last year. Among them were 27,150 from Venezuela, 22,288 from Cuba, 3,421 from Angola, 2,144 from India, 1,914 from Vietnam, and 1,437 from Nepal.

Other notable figures include 1,131 applications from Colombia, 598 from China, 477 from Morocco, 429 from Somalia, 415 from Bangladesh, 391 from Cameroon, 362 from Togo, 355 from Pakistan, 345 from Afghanistan, 313 from Haiti, 295 from the Dominican Republic, 249 from Peru, 239 from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 232 from Lebanon. An additional 3,974 applications came from various other countries.

People’s News Monitoring Service