News: 2019 Global Trends Report Published

In advance of World Refugee Day, UNHCR released its annual Global Trends report today. Here are its main findings:

- At the end of 2019, a total of 79.5 million people around the world had been forcibly displaced, up from 70.8 million the year before
- Of this total figure, 20.4 million are refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, while 5.6 million Palestinians are refugees under UNRWA’s mandate
- 45.7 million are internally displaced people
- 4.2 million are asylum-seekers
- 3.6 million are Venezuelans who may "not [be] legally registered as refugees or asylum-seekers, but for whom protection-sensitive arrangements are required"

More details are provided in this press release and news story. See also related Guardian article and HC comments to Security Council.

Previous editions of Global Trends reports can be accessed here.

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