People in China , Germany and Britain were ranked as the world ’s most welcoming to refugees in findings published by human rights organisation Amnesty International . On Wednesday , the rights group said that residents of Russia, Indonesia and Thailand were considered the least welcoming out of 27 countries in the Refugees Welcome Index , which measured public levels of acceptance of refugees .The index ranked nations on a sliding scale of how willing citizens said they were to welcome refugees into their homes , neighbourhoods, cities , towns or villages and countries . Around the world , it found that one person in 10 would be prepared to take refugees into their homes . “ These figures speak for themselves , ” said Shalil Shetty .
“ People are ready to welcome refugees , ” he said, but governments ’ inhumane response to the refugee crisis is “ badly out of touch with the views of their own citizens ” . The five - year long conflict in Syria , which has claimed around 270, 000 lives , has sparked a major refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe as people flee the fighting . Millions more people are displaced around the world each year by conflict and disaster .
In China, which was ranked as the most welcoming country , 46 percent of people said they would take refugees into their own home. Those in Britain were the second most willing to do so at 29 percent . While one in 10 Germans said they would accept refugees into their homes , 56 percent said they were welcome and 96 percent in their country . In Russia, where people were ranked as the least welcoming, 61 percent said they would refuse refugees access to their country.
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