117.8 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. By the end of 2025, 117.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, ...

Globally, as of the end of December 2025, the most recent reporting period, there were 41.6 million refugees, 9 million asylum-seekers and 68.7 million people displaced due to conflict or violence within their own country (IDPs).

At the end of 2025, of the 117.8 million forcibly displaced people, an estimated 45 million (38 per cent) are children below 18 years of age. ... Between 2018 and 2025, an average of 305,000 children were born as refugees per year. ... Almost 4.4 million refugees returned to their countries ...

June 11, 2026 - However, many of the returns occurred under adverse circumstances and the reintegration conditions remain extremely challenging. One in every 70 people, or 1.4 per cent of the entire world’s population, is now forcibly displaced

June 21, 2026 - UNHCR most recently estimated that, by the end of 2025, the number of people forcibly displaced is now over 117.8 million, ... Most people who are forced to leave home stay inside the same country, and are called ‘internally displaced’. ...

Among them were 41.6 million refugees and other people in need of protection across international borders, alongside tens of millions of internally displaced people and millions of asylum-seekers.

June 18, 2026 - As of the end of 2025, 41.6 million people worldwide are refugees — people forced to flee their home countries due to conflict, violence, persecution, or human rights violations, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in its ...

We entered 2026 with 41.6 million refugees worldwide. Here’s where many are coming from, and how you can help.

December 31, 2025 - A record high of 110 million people have fled their homes in search of safety and stability. This is more than any other time since World War II.

June 11, 2026 - The remaining 6 million are living in neighbouring countries without being formally registered as refugees or asylum seekers. In 2018, UNHCR chose not to include this last group in the total number of people fleeing globally, while from 2019 ...

1 month ago - Refugees are people who have been ... association with a particular social group. According to the United Nations, an estimated 100 million people around the world were forcibly displaced by the midway point of 2023....

To calculate the number of refugees per 1,000 or 100,000 people in a country, we divide the number of refugees by the total population of the country (for the same year) and multiply by the factor.

At the end of 2020, there were 82.4 million forcibly displaced people in the world, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), of which more than a quarter are refugees.

Updated for 2025, here’s what you need to know about the situation for the world’s 31 million refugees.

June 24, 2024 - About 120 million people, or one in 69 individuals worldwide, are displaced.

January 5, 2026 - An unprecedented 100 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Find the latest data and refugee statistics here.

November 4, 2025 - At the end of June 2025, 117.3 million individuals worldwide remained forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.