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Global forced displacement hits all-time high of 110 million amid conflicts, disasters

  • The record figure of 110 million people displaced includes people forced from their homes in Sudan and the Ukraine.
  • Nineteen million more people were displaced in 2022, the biggest annual increase ever recorded.
  • Children make up nearly half the total, with over 43 million displaced and 17.5 million refugees and asylum seekers.
  • Turkey and Iran host the largest refugee populations, with 3.8 million and 3.4 million respectively.
  • Resettlement of refugees doubled in 2022 to 114,000, still only a tiny fraction of the total displaced.
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