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- 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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