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Table 3 UNHCR 2011 budgeted spending per capita (PPP-adjusted 2011 US$): total, basic needs, and healthcare by population planning groups (PPG) for 1.6 million refugees living in 17 different host countries

From: Does spending on refugees make a difference? A cross-sectional study of the association between refugee program spending and health outcomes in 70 sites in 17 countries

Country of asylum

PPG description

Total

Basic needs

Healthcare

Burundi

Congolese refugees and asylum seekers

$980.13

$366.91

$127.39

Bangladesh

Refugees from Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar

$686.63

$398.17

$85.45

Central African Republic

Refugees and asylum seekers in rural areas

$614.81

$337.68

$121.29

Djibouti

Refugees in Djibouti

$1,829.75

$1,027.15

$139.26

Ethiopia

Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers

$939.97

$489.94

$139.36

Ethiopia

Somali refugees and asylum seekers

$2,047.61

$1,345.96

$173.65

Ethiopia

Mainly Sudanese refugees in Western Ethiopia

$2,055.63

$1,022.57

$222.67

Kenya

Refugees and asylum seekers of various nationalities in Kakuma camp

$538.81

$241.55

$51.34

Kenya

Majority Somali refugees and asylum seekers

$867.19

$586.74

$78.95

Namibia

Refugees and asylum seekers in Osire camp and Windhoek

$463.01

$226.85

$47.27

Nepal

Refugees and asylum seekers from Bhutan

$399.54

$196.21

$53.70

Rwanda

Refugees in camps

$483.44

$228.37

$51.09

Sudan

Refugees and asylum seekers in the East

$631.72

$251.23

$64.99

Chad

Refugees from the Central African Republic

$739.35

$178.26

$55.93

Chad

Sudanese refugees in the East

$735.61

$275.63

$78.36

Thailand

Myanmar refugees in border camps

$231.33

$49.96

$7.28

Tanzania

Refugees and asylum seekers in camps

$444.56

$83.46

$12.39

Uganda

Congolese, Rwandan, Somali, Burundian and other refugees

$460.46

$211.30

$65.94

Yemen

Refugees

$271.01

$127.54

$23.17

Zambia

Refugees of various origins in camps

$316.11

$82.70

$25.91