03/11/2023
Mid-Year Trends report released by UN refugee agency
14 million people on the flee around the world
By the end of September 2023, the number of people fleeing war, persecution, violence and human rights violations around the world most likely exceeded 114 million. This is reported by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
According to the Mid-Year Trends report published by the agency, which analyzes data for the first six months of the year on people forced to flee, the main push factors in the first half of 2023 were the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar, a combination of events such as drought, floods and lack of security conditions in Somalia, and the prolonged ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
The report does not take into account the figure for people forced to flee following the re-escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
Low and middle income countries took in 75 percent of refugees and others in need of international protection. In the first six months of the year, 1.6 million new individual asylum applications were filed, the highest number ever recorded.
Among other figures, just over 404,000 refugees returned to their country of origin registered, more than double the number for the same period in 2022, although many of these returns were in unsafe conditions. Nearly 2.7 million IDPs returned to their homes in the same period, more than double the number recorded in the first half of 2022. The number of resettled refugees increased.
Published: Friday 03 November 2023 - Last modify: Thursday 14 March 2024
