REFUGEES, MIGRANTS and ASYLUM SEEKERS CRISIS
By May 2024, more than 120 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations.
May 2024: Conflicts drive new record of 75.9 million people living in internal displacement (Source: IDMC - Read more here)
Conflict and violence in Sudan, Palestine, and elsewhere drove the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world to 75.9 million at the end of 2023, a new record, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which published its annual Global Report on Internal Displacement today.
More than 6.9.Million people are asylum seeker, 43.4 Million are refugees and migrants, 5.8 Million are other people in need of international protection, 43.4 million refugees and 63.3 million internally displaced people.
73% of all refugees and other people in need of international protection come from just five countries: Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine and Sudan.
Tόrkiye is home to the world’s largest refugee population, with almost 3.6 million Syrians under temporary protection and close to 370,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities.
Over 98 per cent of refugees in Tόrkiye live in urban, peri-urban and rural areas, while the remaining refugees (less than 2%) live in Temporary Accommodation Centers.
Forcibly displaced people worldwide
at the end of 2023 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
37.6 MILLION are refugees
6.9 MILLION are asylum-seekers