U.N. Refugee Agency’s New Report Outlines Global Refugee and Resettlement Trends
Each year the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) releases a comprehensive report tracking forced displacement across the globe. The statistics are invaluable in understanding the magnitude of the challenges facing refugees, forcibly displaced communities, stateless people and migrants as they flee wars, persecution or human rights abuses. It also highlights the dimensions of the challenges facing agencies such as UNHCR that seek to help individuals and families in need. As described in the new report , here are the key facts, figures and trends for 2021: ‣ The number of refugees worldwide increased from 20.7 in 2020 to 21.3 million at the end of 2021, more than double the 10.5 million a decade ago. ‣ The number of Venezuelans displaced abroad also rose, from 3.9 million to 4.4 million, during the same period. ‣ 89.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2021. ‣ That number represents a doubling of the 42.7 million who remained forcibly di