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Statelessness is the condition of not being recognized as a citizen or national by any country under its laws.
In other words, a stateless person has no legal nationality. This means:
- They may not have the right to a passport or official identification.
- They can be denied access to education, healthcare, employment, property ownership, and other rights that usually come with citizenship.
- They may face difficulties traveling, marrying, or even registering their children.
From Wikipedia: Click here for the page.
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is, “Not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border. At the end of 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published an estimation of 4.4 million people worldwide as either stateless or of undetermined nationality, 90,800 (+2%) more than at the end of 2021. However, the data itself is not complete because UNHCR does not have data from many countries, such as from at least 22 countries where mass statelessness exists. The data also does not include de facto stateless people who have no legal identification to prove their nationality or legal existence. According to the World Bank, at least 850 million fit that category. Given that the legal concept of nationality prevails in practice, completely undocumented people fit the definition of being de facto stateless.
