MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The highest support for refugees was shown by respondents in China, Germany and the United Kingdom, according to the index. In China alone, almost 50 percent of those surveyed said they would even welcome the refugees into their own homes.
"Our survey shows that while many governments still claim they simply can’t find room for refugees, their citizens feel the opposite way," Amnesty International said in the report, adding that it also found that "politicians have run out of excuses not to do their fair share: Instead of chasing headlines with anti-refugee rhetoric, they should be making brave decisions."
Meanwhile, in Germany, 96 percent said they are still open for the idea of hosting more refugees, despite an inflow of one million migrants into the country in 2015. In Jordan, which is already hosting over 600,000 refugees who fled war-torn Syria, 94 percent of respondents support the idea of hosting even more people in need, the survey's results revealed.
Over 27,000 people were surveyed in the process of compiling the index, according to the watchdog.
A massive refugee crisis is currently raging in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn countries of origin in the Middle East and Africa to escape violence and poverty. More than 1.8 million of them arrived in the European Union in 2015.
