Ecuador's refugees: will Assange be accepted for asylum?

Ecuador has a total population "of concern" to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees of 144,494 people - according to the latest data out this week . That is the second highest number in Latin America after Venezuela. And, compared to its population of 14m people, it has a proportionately high number of refugees - 8.5 for every 1,000 people. That compares to 7 for Venezuela and only 3.1 for the UK. The majority of Ecuador's refugees - 122,587 people - come from neighbouring Colombia. It's not a certainty Julian Assange will join them either. Ecuador rejected 9,584 applications for asylum in 2011 - that's 78% of all the decisions it made that year and 68% of all applications. The country still has 21,558 pending asylum cases where it hasn't decided yet. But Ecuador also produces refugees too, something which may not have occurred to Assange. 909 people at the end of 2011. We will shortly publish the report's full data More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook