Refugees

UN Refugee Agency - At the end of 2025, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide was 117.8 million. The total number of forcibly displaced people decreased for the first time in a decade…. At the end of 2024, 122 million people were forcibly displaced.

At the end of 2025, there were 35.6 million refugees, or people in a refugee-like situation and in need of protection, under UNHCR’s mandate…. The number of refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, including people in a refugee-like situation and other people in need of international protection, stood at 3 percent lower than at the end of 2024.

Children account for 29 percent of the world’s population, but 39 percent of refugees, people in a refugee-like situation and other people in need of international protection in 2025.  While the number of refugees decreased in 2025, the percentage of refugee children remained at 39 percent. Additionally, women and girls account for half the number of refugees or people in refugee-like situations…

4. By the end of 2025, 68.7 million people were internally displaced. About half of IDPs are from 5 countries: Sudan, Colombia, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan.   Internally displaced people (IDPs) are people forced to flee their homes, but they remain within the borders of their country

There were over 14.7 million refugees and IDPs who were able to return home, and 81,800 were resettled by UNHCR or through sponsorship pathways.