At the end of 2021, the number of people "forcibly displaced worldwide by persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order" was 89.3 million (an increase from last year's 82.4 million). This number includes the following groups:
- 27.1 million refugees (21.3 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate and 5.8 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate)
- 53.2 million internally displaced people
- 4.6 million asylum seekers
- 4.4 million Venezuelans displaced abroad
More than two thirds (69%) of all people displaced abroad came from just five countries: Syria (6.8 million), Venezuela (4.6 million), Afghanistan (2.7 million), South Sudan (2.4 million) and Myanmar (1.2 million).
The vast majority of those displaced abroad – nearly 72% – are hosted in neighbouring countries. And most are low- and middle-income countries.
The top host countries are Turkey (nearly 3.8 million refugees), Colombia (1.8 million), Uganda (1.5 million), Pakistan (1.5 million) and Germany (1.3 million).
More than 4.3 million people globally were estimated to be stateless or of undetermined nationality at the end of 2021.
More details are provided in this UNHCR press release and news story. Different language versions of the Global Trends report and press release can be found on the media page.
Also published was UNHCR's annual Global Report, "which reports on UNHCR programmes and activities to address the needs of all who are forced to flee, as well as the world’s known stateless populations."
Previous editions of Global Trends reports can be accessed here.
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