2.9
Million
displaced people
returned
During 2018, 2.9 million displaced
people returned to their areas or
countries of origin, including
2.3 million IDPs and nearly
600,000 refugees. Returns have
not kept pace with the rate of new
displacements.
67%
Altogether, more than two thirds
(67 per cent) of all refugees worldwide
came from just five countries:
Syrian Arab Republic
Afghanistan
South Sudan
Myanmar
Million new claims
Asylum-seekers submitted 1.7 million
new claims. With 254,300 such
claims, the United States of America
was the world’s largest recipient of
new individual applications, followed
by Peru (192,500) Germany (161,900),
France (114,500) and Turkey (83,800).3
3.7
Million PEOPLE
For the fifth consecutive year,
Turkey hosted the largest number of
refugees worldwide, with 3.7 million
people. The main countries of
asylum for refugees were:
Turkey
3.7 million
2.7 million
Pakistan
1.4 million
2.3 million
Uganda
1.2 million
6.7 million
1.1 million
Somalia
1.7
0.9 million
Sudan
1.1 million
Germany
1.1 million
81,300
Refugees for
resettlement
In 2018, UNHCR submitted 81,300
refugees to States for resettlement.
According to government statistics,
25 countries admitted 92,400
refugees for resettlement during the
year, with or without UNHCR’s
assistance.
138,600
Unaccompanied
AND separated
Children
Some 27,600 unaccompanied and
separated children sought asylum on
an individual basis and a total of
111,000 unaccompanied and separated
child refugees were reported in 2018.
Both numbers are considered
significant underestimates.
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Children
Children below 18 years of age
constituted about half of the refugee
population in 2018, up from 41 per
cent in 2009 but similar to the
previous few years
Venezuela
Venezuelan refugees and asylumseekers grew in number. The
broader movement of Venezuelans
across the region and beyond
increasingly took on the
characteristics of a refugee situation,
with some 3.4 million outside the
country by the end of 2018.4
unhcr > Global trends 2018
Lebanon
Lebanon continued to host
the largest number of
refugees relative to its
national population, where
1 in 6 people was a refugee.
Jordan (1 in 14) and Turkey
(1 in 22) ranked second and
third, respectively.5
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