Sorry dianavan, I thought that JohnInKansas had provided the current information with the link that he supplied:

"You have seen yesterday's press release on UNHCR's $60 million appeal for the Iraq situation in 2007, focusing on hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable Iraqis displaced both internally and externally."

You asked for statistics comparing those seeking asylum from Saddam and those seeking asylum presently.

Those who sought asylum, were refugees or were internally displaced during Saddam's time at the helm amounted to 3,000,000 out of a population of 23 million - figures correct as of 2002.

Those who sought asylum, were refugees or were internally displaced subsequent to the fall of Saddam amounts to hundreds of thousands out of a population of 26.8 million - figures correct as of 2007

That any help?