Reported Stateless Persons
Bhutan reported zero stateless persons to UNHCR between the years of 2019 and 2022. UNHCR has identified Bhutan as a country which possesses information about stateless persons but lacks any reliable data. While there are no formally reported stateless populations there was concerted focus on the denationalisation and expulsion of Nepali speaking communities, the ‘Lhotshampa’, in the 1980s and –90s. According to the U.S. State Department’s 2022 Human Rights Report, media and civil society have reported the existence of stateless children in Bhutan who are born to unwed mothers and unable to prove the identity of the child’s father.”
