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Numbers ready to cite (2025)
| Fact | Figure | Verify |
|---|---|---|
| People of concern worldwide | 116.310.473 | map → |
| Of those: forcibly displaced refugees + asylum-seekers + IDPs + OIP | 108.876.228 | method → |
| One person in N on Earth is forcibly displaced | 1 in 76 | method → |
| Refugees (crossed a border) | 28.461.306 | map → |
| Internally displaced (never crossed) | 64.239.352 | map → |
| Largest hosts (top 3) | Alemania, Turquía, Uganda | map → |
| Largest origins (top 3) | Ucrania, Siria, Sudán | map → |
| Share of refugees in the top-5 hosts | 34% | records → |
Ready-made starting points
- Largest one-year rise in hosting ever: Irán, 2022, +2.626.748.
- Largest one-year decline ever: Irán, 2025, -2.718.743 (a decline is not necessarily returns — see the reading notes in the record library).
- All-time per-capita hosting record: RAE de Hong Kong (China), 1964, 357.1 per 1,000 residents (story).
- Longest-running #1 origin: Afganistán, 34 years (story).
For the full tables of extremes, see the record library.
Attribution (paste as-is)
Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (data as of 2025-12-31), via Where They Went (https://wheretheywent.lakkev.com), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22087749.
Three rules in thirty seconds
- People, not water: avoid flood/wave/surge metaphors — these count people.
- A decline is not necessarily returns: it can be naturalisation, revisions, or definition changes (see the definitions timeline).
- Compare across decades with care: the legal definition of "refugee" was narrower before 1967, and the Venezuelan exodus sits mostly under OIP (a category created in 2018). Full rules: cite responsibly.
Contact and reuse
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