Global Trends report 2025
DATA AND STATISTICS
Global Trends
11 June 2026
The latest Global Trends report, published in June 2026, provides key statistical trends on forced displacement. It includes the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, as well as the number of refugees who have returned home.
At the end of 2025, there were 41.6 million refugees globally, including refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, people in a refugee-like situation, other people in need of international protection and Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate, as well as 9 million asylum-seekers pending a decision on their asylum claims. In addition, there were 68.7 million people displaced within their own country due to conflict or violence.
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