This week UNHCR released the 2024 Mid-Year Trends report which covers the main displacement, statelessness and durable solutions figures covering the first half of 2024.
The report shows that at the end of June, UNHCR estimates that 122.6 million people remained forcibly displaced worldwide due to war, persecution, violence and human rights violations.
This represents an increase of 5 per cent, or 5.3 million people. As a result, 1 in 67 people worldwide remained forcibly displaced, 71 per cent of them in low- and middle-income countries. For more than 12 years the number of people remaining forcibly displaced has continued to grow. By the end of June 2024, 1 in 67 people worldwide remained forcibly displaced, almost double the 1 in 114 people a decade ago.
The main drivers of forced displacement in the first half of 2024 were the conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar, the war in Ukraine and worsening gang violence in Haiti.
Most people who are forced to flee never cross an international border, remaining displaced within their own countries. Known as internally displaced people, or IDPs, they accounted for nearly 3 in 5 of all forcibly displaced people by the end of June 2024. An estimated 72.1 million people remained internally displaced due to conflict or violence at mid-2024, a 6 per cent increase from the end of 2023.
The global refugee population reached 43.7 million by mid-2024, an increase of 1 per cent from the end of 2023. This includes 32 million refugees and 5.8 million other people in need of international protection under UNHCR’s mandate, as well as 6 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate. The increases during the first six months of 2024 were driven primarily by continued displacement from Sudan and Ukraine.
The report is a mid-year review leading to the flagship UNHCR Global Trends report. It is released to provide updated figures and analysis for the initial six months of the current year (from 1 January to 30 June). These figures are preliminary, and the final data is included in the subsequent Global Trends report.
All of the statistics presented in the report are available on the Refugee Data Finder.
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Note to graph: * The total number of people forcibly displaced is calculated using statistics by UNHCR, UNRWA and IDMC. UNRWA estimates that 70 per cent of the 1.7 million IDPs in the Gaza Strip at mid-2024 were Palestine refugees under its mandate. These internally displaced refugees under UNRWA’s mandate are only counted once in the global forcibly displaced total. ** Data for year prior to 2024 comes from IDMC. The mid-2024 estimate is calculated using IDMC’s end-2023 figure (68.3 million people) as a base. It only reflects changes in the statistics in the 37 countries in which UNHCR reported internal displacement during the first six months of 2024 (+3.8 million). The mid-year estimate is therefore likely to be under representative of the global total.
Graph source: Mid-Year Trends | UNHCR
Photo credit: © UNHCR/Ying Hu
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