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Forcibly
displaced people |
Population that UNHCR protects and/or assists
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Palestine refugees under UNRWA's mandate
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Not included in the population that UNHCR protects and/or assists.
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Refugees under UNHCR's mandate
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Includes both refugees and people in refugee-like situations.
Used consistently in both categorizations.
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Asylum-seekers
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Used consistently in both categorizations.
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Other people in need of international protection
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Used consistently in both categorizations.
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Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
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The biggest difference between the two categorizations is with people who
have been internally displaced.
When presenting these statistics, UNHCR applies two different sources:
IDMC's IDP
statistics
collate the total forcibly displaced while those IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR
are included in the total population that UNHCR protects and/or assists.
The two sources of IDP data vary significantly in certain countries.
x IDPs
while UNHCR reports y
conflict-affected IDPs at zzzz.
Globally, IDMC reports
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Stateless people
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In total, UNHCR reports x stateless people,
y are also forcibly displaced
(e.g. the Rohingya in Bangladesh that have been forcibly displaced from
Myanmar).
These y are only counted as forcibly
displaced when calculating the total population that UNHCR protects and/or assists to avoid
double counting.
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Refugee returns
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Only included in the population that UNHCR protects and/or assists for a period of 12 months.
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IDP returns
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Only included in the population that UNHCR protects and/or assists for a period of 12 months.
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Others of concern to UNHCR
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Only included in the population that UNHCR protects and/or assists.
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Host community
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Not included in either categorization.
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