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Forcibly displaced people

The summary statistics presented below show all forcibly displaced people. This includes refugees under UNHCR’s mandate as well as Palestine refugees under the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)’s mandate, asylum-seekers, other people in need of international protection and internally displaced people (IDPs, as reported by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).* The summaries can be filtered by UNHCR regions, countries and population types. The figures on this page are based on data reported by governments, non-governmental organizations and UNHCR.

123.2

Million
people

6.2%

increase
compared to previous year

194

countries of origin

By origin

By asylum

* Some Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate in Gaza have also been internally displaced in 2023 and 2024. In total number of forcibly displaced people, these internally displaced refugees under UNRWA’s mandate are only counted once.