This means 1 in every 78 people on earth has been forced to flee – a dramatic milestone that few would have expected a decade ago.Īs new refugee situations emerge and intensify, and as existing ones reignite or remain unresolved, there is an acute need for durable solutions at increasing scale. With millions of Ukrainians displaced and further displacement elsewhere in 2022, total forced displacement now exceeds 100 million people. In last year's Global Trends report, UNHCR predicted that "the question is no longer if forced displacement will exceed 100 million people – but rather when". Read the full Global Trends report More than 100 million people are forcibly displaced At the end of 2021, Syria, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Ethiopia and Afghanistan continued to host the largest IDP populations globally. Known as internally displaced people, or IDPs, they account for some 60 per cent of all people displaced. People displaced inside their own countries due to armed conflicts, generalized violence or human rights violations continue to constitute the majority of the forcibly displaced population globally. Throughout the year, 794,100 people were granted international protection on an individual (494,900) or group (299,200) basis. The number of Venezuelans displaced abroad also rose, from 3.9 million to 4.4 million, during the same period. Over the span of the year, the number of refugees worldwide increased from 20.7 in 2020 to 21.3 million at the end of 2021, more than double the 10.5 million a decade ago. New displacements - January to December 2021 Refugees The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen saw increases of between 100,000 and 500,000 people displaced internally in 2021. The number of people displaced internally rose for the 15th straight year, even as more than 790,000 Afghans returned during the year. In Afghanistan, the events leading up to the Taliban's takeover of Kabul in August 2021 resulted in displacement within the country as well as into neighbouring countries. Ongoing and newly developed conflicts have driven the displacement across the globe.įor example, the conflict in the Tigray region in Ethiopia led to at least 2.5 million more people being displaced within their country, with some 1.5 million of them returning to their homes during the year. Read more: What is the difference between population statistics for forcibly displaced and the population of concern to UNHCR? New displacements in 2021 Therefore, some data presented in this year’s report are based on information received as of. However, it is impossible to ignore the developments that have happened in early 2022. The latest Global Trends report reflects on the period January 2021 to December 2021. People forced to flee worldwide (2012 - 2022) If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them. This is more than double the 42.7 million people who remained forcibly displaced a decade ago and the most since World War II. At the end of 2021, the total number of people worldwide who were forced to flee their homes due to conflicts, violence, fear of persecution and human rights violations was 89.3 million.
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