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Refugee Data Finder

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Data Insights

The following collection of stories and visualisations explain and summarise the data in the refugee data finder. More will be released in the coming weeks.

UNHCR's population categorisations explained
Compares the categorisation of forcibly displaced people with the population of concern to UNHCR.
Explainer18 June 2021
Classifying refugee host countries by income level
UNHCR group refugee hosting countries into regions by applying the World Bank’s income groups.
Explainer16 June 2022
Forced displacement flow dataset
A new dataset recording the number of people forced to flee during each year since 1962.
Dataset16 June 2022
How many children are born into a refugee life?
Estimates of the number of children born into refugee life by imputing missing birth data between 2018 and 2021.
Modelling16 June 2022
More than 100 million people are forcibly displaced
An explanation of the data used to estimate this figure - which is equivalent to 1 in every 78 people on earth.
Explainer16 June 2022
Population statistics in the Americas
Visualisations of forcibly displaced population statistics for situations in the Americas.
Dashboard18 June 2021

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