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at mid-2024 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
The database contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning more than 70 years of statistical activities. It covers displaced populations such as refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people, including their demographics. Stateless people are also included, most of who have never been displaced. The database also reflects the different types of solutions for displaced populations such as repatriation or resettlement.
This website is based on three data sources:
For methodological explanations, data limitations and coverage, visit the Methodology page.
Nearly two-thirds of all refugees under UNHCR’s mandate and other people in need of international protection come from just four countries.
| Syrian Arab Republic | 6.3 million |
| Venezuela | 6.2 million |
| Ukraine | 6.1 million |
| Afghanistan | 6.1 million |
Colombia, Germany, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Türkiye and Uganda hosted almost one-third of the world’s refugees and other people in need of international protection.
| Islamic Republic of Iran | 3.8 million |
| Türkiye | 3.1 million |
| Colombia | 2.8 million |
| Germany | 2.7 million |
| Uganda | 1.7 million |
At the end of 2023, of the 117.3 million forcibly displaced people, an estimated 47 million (40 per cent) are children below 18 years of age.
Between 2018 and 2023, an average of 339,000 children were born as refugees per year.
Some 433,600 refugees returned to their countries of origin during the first half of 2024 while 85,000 were resettled (with or without UNHCR’s assistance).
Low- and middle-income countries host 71 per cent of the world’s refugees and other people in need of international protection. The Least Developed Countries provide asylum to 22 per cent of the total.
Data on some 4.4 million stateless people residing in 97 countries was reported at mid-2023. The true global figure is estimated to be significantly higher.
69 per cent of refugees and other people in need of international protection lived in countries neighbouring their countries of origin.
