Concluding visit to Kuwait, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Grandi calls for scaled-up support to address growing needs of displaced populations

UNHCR annual Global Trends Report 2024

UNHCR’s Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people.

At the end of 2024, an estimated 123.2 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing the public order.

This is an increase of 7 million people or 6 per cent compared to the end of 2023. While displacement has almost doubled globally over the last decade, the rate of increase slowed in the second half of 2024. By the end of April 2025, UNHCR estimates that the global number of forcibly displaced people has likely fallen slightly by 1 per cent to 122.1 million, the first decrease in well over a decade.