SOLUTIONS
52%
2.6
6
MILLION
DISPLACED PEOPLE
ORIGINATED FROM
JUST THREE
COUNTRIES
MILLION
NEW CLAIMS
RETURNED
52 per cent of all refugees and
other people in need of
international protection came from
just three countries:
The United States of America
was the world’s largest recipient
of new individual applications.
United States of America
730,400
6 million displaced people returned
to their areas or countries of origin
in 2022, including 5.7 million
internally displaced people and
339,300 refugees.
114,300
REFUGEES
Syrian Arab Republic
6.5 million
Germany
217,800
Costa Rica
129,500
Ukraine
5.7 million
RESETTLED
Spain
118,800
114,300 refugees were resettled in
2022, double the previous year
(57,500), according to government
statistics. UNHCR submitted
116,500 refugees to States for
resettlement.
Afghanistan
5.7 million
Mexico
118,800
DEMOGRAPHICS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED
Children account for 30 per cent of the world’s population, but 40 per cent of all forcibly displaced people. 8
MALE
60+
3%
6%
FEMALE
4%
8%
26%
26%
18-59
28%
28%
20%
0-17
Forcibly displaced
World population
20%
15%
15%
DISCLAIMER: figures do not add up to 100 per cent due to rounding.
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All references in this infographic to refugees under UNHCR’s mandate includes people in refugee-like situations.
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
See the definition of other people in need of international protection on the next page.
See Classifying refugee host countries by income level.
Includes refugees and other people in need of international protection.
Limited to countries hosting at least 10,000 people. Excludes Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate.
When 487,300 Palestine refugees in Lebanon and 2.4 million Palestine refugees in Jordan registered with UNRWA are included, the proportions in Lebanon
and Jordan increase to one in four.
Sources: Estimation of IDP demographics (IDMC); Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate (UNRWA); Refugees, people in a refugee-like situation,
asylum-seekers and other people in need of international protection are based on the available data (UNHCR) and World Population estimates (UN
Department of Economic and Social Affairs).
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