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UNHCR Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2023

2024

This annual report, published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), focuses on the global crisis of displacement due to conflict, presenting key statistical trends for displaced peoples worldwide. By the end of 2023, 117.3 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide due to persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. This marks an increase of 8.8 million since the end of 2022. Violence and extreme conflict in Sudan—where more than 7.1 million people are internally displaced as of May 2024, and in Palestine and Myanmar have contributed to millions of people facing internal displacement, risk of famine, and death. 

The report offers demographic data about the global refugee population as well as internally displaced persons (IDPs), asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other groups or persons in need of international protection.  Readers can download annexes of data used in the report or access the Refugee Population Statistics Database maintained by UNHCR. 

Chapters include: 

  • Chapter 1: Global Forced Displacement
  • Chapter 2: Refugees
  • Chapter 3: Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
  • Chapter 4: Asylum Trends
  • Chapter 5: Solutions
  • Chapter 6: Stateless People 

Source:

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2023. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2024. https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends.