This includes 28.5 million refugees under UNHCR's mandate, 1.5 million people in a refugee-like situation and 7.2 million other people in need of international protection, as well as 6 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA's mandate.

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 ...

At the end of 2024, there were 36.9 million refugees globally, with 31 million under the UNHCR mandate,34 and 5.9 million refugees registered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).35 A further 5.9 million ...

Syria remains one of the largest humanitarian emergencies in the world. In 2026, some 15.6 million people - over six in ten of the 25.6 million inhabitants – require humanitarian assistance. Pictured: Syrian Arab Republic.

4 weeks ago - 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 ...

117.8 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. Learn more about the number of refugees from various regions and the countries in which they are most often ...

A further 81,800 refugees were resettled or arrived via sponsorship pathways, and 93,500 refugees acquired a new nationality or were granted permanent residence status during the year. ... An estimated 4.5 million stateless people were reported globally at end-2025. The true global number of ...

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’. ...

October 1, 2026 - UNHCR's 2025 Global Trends report counts 41.6 million refugees worldwide, with 65% hosted in neighboring countries.

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.

3 weeks 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....

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.