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In March 2016, the United Nations Statistical
Commission, at its 47th session, decided to
establish an Expert Group on Refugee and IDP
Statistics (EGRIS).13 The group consists of
participants from national authorities, international
statistical organizations, and other technical
experts, led by Statistics Norway, Eurostat, and
UNHCR, and aims to address the challenges
related to refugee and IDP statistics. The EGRIS
was mandated to develop: 1) International
Recommendations on Refugee Statistics, which will
be a reference guide for national and international
work concerning statistics on refugee and asylumseekers; 2) Refugee Statistics Compilers’ Manual
with operational instructions on how to implement
the international recommendations; and 3)
Technical Report outlining a way forward for similar
work for IDP statistics.
This Global Trends report analyses statistical trends
and changes of global displacement from January
to December 2016 in populations for whom UNHCR
has been entrusted with a responsibility by the
international community, including refugees,
asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons, and
UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2016
certain groups of internally displaced people.14 The
data presented are based on information available
as of 15 May 2017 unless otherwise indicated.
The figures in this report are based on data
reported by governments, non-governmental
organizations, and UNHCR. The numbers are
rounded to the closest hundred or thousand. As
some adjustments may appear in the 2016
Statistical Yearbook to be released at a later date,
the figures contained in this report should be
considered as provisional and subject to change.
Unless otherwise specified, the report does not
refer to events occurring after 31 December 2016.
13 For more information, see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/
expert-group-on-refugee-statistics/home.
14 See p. 56 for a definition of each population group.
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