GLOBAL APPEAL 2025 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I POPULATION PLANNING FIGURES 2025 Global population planning figures¹ F O RC I B LY D I S PL AC E D A N D S TATE LE SS PEO PLE | 20 1 6 -2025 + 106% from 2016 to 2025 Refugees under UNHCR's mandate Asylum-seekers 136.9M IDPs of concern to UNHCR 139.3M 3.9M 6M Stateless persons2 122.6M Returned Refugees and IDPs 12.8M 116.2M Other people in need of international protection 4.6M Others of concern 94.7M 84.2M 67.6M 71.3M 87.6M 74.8M 68.5M 9.5M 34M 2016 1 2 3 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024* Please see definitions of population types on UNHCR's Refugee Data Finder website, at https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/methodology/definition/ Stateless figures do not include stateless people who are also displaced to avoid double counting. Figures from 2016 to 2023 are actual figures, figures for 2024 and 2025 are planning figures. 2025 PL A N N I N G F I G U R E S O F FO RC I B LY D I S PL AC E D A N D S TATE LE SS PEO PLE 139.3 million forcibly displaced and stateless people in 2025 Number of individuals Refugees 34,024,027 Asylum-seekers (pending cases) 9,471,572 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 68,528,241 Persons under UNHCR's statelessness mandate 4,577,313 Returnees (Refugees and IDPs) 12,793,841 Other people in need of international protection 6,014,790 3 UNHCR GLOBAL APPEAL 2025 Others of concern 3,863,441 Total 139,273,225 2025*