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Refugee Arrivals to the U.S. From Southeast Asia, Fiscal Years 1975-2002

Fiscal Year	Cambodia	Laos	Vietnam	Total

1975	4,600	800	125,000	130,400
1976	1,100	10,200	3,200	14,500
1977	300	400	1,900	2,600
1978	1,300	8,000	11,100	20,400
1979	6,000	30,200	44,500	80,700
1980	16,000	55,500	95,200	166,700
1981	38,194	19,777	65,279	123,250
1982	6,246	3,616	27,396	37,258
1983	13,041	2,907	22,819	38,767
1984	19,727	7,218	24,856	51,801
1985	19,175	5,195	25,222	49,592
1986	9,845	12,313	21,700	43,858
1987	1,786	13,394	19,656	34,836
1988	2,897	14,597	17,571	35,065
1989	2,162	12,560	21,924	36,646
1990	2,329	8,715	27,797	38,841
1991	179	9,232	28,396	37,807
1992	163	7,285	26,795	34,243
1993	63	6,944	31,401	38,408
1994	15	6,211	34,110	40,336
1995	6	3,682	32,250	35,938
1996	5	2,203	16,107	18,315
1997	9	915	6,612	7,536
1998	7	9	10,266	10,282
1999	0	19	9,622	9,641
2000	0	64	2,839	2,903
2001	23	22	3,109	3,154
2002	0	18	2,855	2,873
Totals	145,172	241,996	759,482	1,146,650
Sources: Office of Refugee Resettlement. 1982-2001. Annual Reports to Congress (fiscal years 1981-2000). Washington, DC: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Refugee arrival statistics for FY 1975-1980 are from Rumbaut (2000: 182). FY 2001 and 2002 figures (2002 from "preliminary data") are from the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State. Tabulated and presented in Refugee Reports December 31, 2002. © 2003 Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (www.searac.org). Please acknowledge SEARAC when copying or making use of the information in this document.