2010 - 2019 A Decade of Displacement AT LEAST 100 MILLION PEOPLE FORCIBLY DISPLACED 16.2 MILLION ASYLUM APPLICATIONS REGISTERED [11% BY UNHCR] 400,000 ASYLUM APPLICATIONS REGISTERED BY UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED CHILDREN 5.0 MILLION ASYLUM-SEEKERS GRANTED INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION [67% RECOGNIZED UNDER THE 1951 REFUGEE CONVENTION] 15.0 MILLION PEOPLE NEWLY RECOGNIZED AS REFUGEES OUTSIDE THE ASYLUM PROCESS (PRIMA FACIE, TEMPORARY PROTECTION) 79.0 MILLION ONLY A FRACTION OF THE MILLIONS DISPLACED FOUND A SOLUTION 3.9 MILLION REFUGEES RETURNING TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 1.1 MILLION REFUGEES RESETTLED BY STATES [70% WITH UNHCR’S ASSISTANCE] 322,400 REFUGEES NATURALIZED IN THEIR COUNTRY OF ASYLUM 128,600 REFUGEES WHOSE STATUS ENDED AS A RESULT OF CESSATION 31.0 MILLION [SOURCE: IDMC] INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS RETURNING TO THEIR PLACE OF RESIDENCE [SOURCE: UNHCR] Changes in population statistics can have multiple reasons in addition to the ones listed. These can include but are not limited to administrative corrections, adjustments as a result of registration, verification exercises conducted as well deaths and births. Additional reasons may include new estimates as a result of revised or improved methodologies, physical access to populations previously nonaccessible and thus unaccounted for or changes in statistical classification of populations. STATELESS PERSONS OBTAINING OR CONFIRMING NATIONALITY NEW INTERNAL DISPLACEMENTS 4 754,500 UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019