News: UNHCR Mid-Year Trends 2019

UNHCR's latest Mid-Year Trends report looks at trends in displacement that occurred during the first half of 2019. From the introduction:

"The first half of the year saw continued new displacements. This was mainly due to the ongoing crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, where the total displaced increased from under 3.1 million at the beginning of 2019 to over 4.1 million in just six months.  ...At 30 June 2019, UNHCR reported a total population of concern of 79.4 million people. This included 20.2 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, 3.7 million asylum-seekers, 531,000 returned refugees, 43.9 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 2.3 million returned IDPs and 3.9 million stateless people."

The report provides more detailed figures for refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons, refugee returns and resettlement, respectively. Statistical tables are also available separately as a zip file.

Past Mid-Year Trends reports are available here.

As I noted in an earlier post, the UNHCR web site no longer has a dedicated page for "Resources and Publications." As you can see from an archived version of the page, it was formerly a central point of access for key publications such as the various Trends reports, etc. And while UNHCR certainly makes plenty of content freely available, it is not necessarily easy to find (discoverable)! Pages that organize and facilitate access to publications are therefore very helpful.