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Global Trends report

June 22 , 2021 1149 days 754 0
  • According to the UNHCR’s latest annual Global Trends report
    • 82.4 million people forcibly displaced globally.
    • 20.7 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate (20.4 million in 2019)
    • 5.7 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate (5.6 million in 2019)
    • 48.0 million internally displaced people (45.7 million in 2019)
    • 4.1 million asylum-seekers (4.1 million in 2019)
    • 3.9 million Venezuelans displaced abroad (3.6 million in 2019)
  • 2020 is the ninth year of uninterrupted rise in forced displacement worldwide.
  • More than two thirds of all people who fled abroad came from just five countries
    • Syria (6.7 million),
    • Venezuela (4.0 million),
    • Afghanistan (2.6 million),
    • South Sudan (2.2 million) and
    • Myanmar (1.1 million).
  • For the seventh year in a row, Turkey hosted the largest refugee population worldwide (3.7 million refugees).

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