Updated
report by UNHCR fot the World Refugee Day, 20 June 2014:
“By
end-2013, 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide
as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human
rights violations. Some 16.7 million persons were refugees: 11.7
million under UNHCR’s mandate and 5.0 million Palestinian refugees
registered by UNRWA. The global figure included 33.3 million
internally displaced persons (IDPs) and close to 1.2 million
asylum-seekers. If these 51.2 million persons were a nation, they
would make up the 26th largest in the world.”
“An
estimated 10.7 million individuals were newly displaced due to
conflict or persecution in 2013. This includes 8.2 million persons
newly displaced within the borders of their own country, the highest
figure on record. The other 2.5 million individuals were new refugees
– the highest number of new arrivals since 1994.”
“During
2013, conflict and persecution forced an average of 32,200
individuals per day to leave their homes and seek protection
elsewhere, either within the borders of their own country or in other
countries. This compares to 23,400 in 2012 and 14,200 in 2011.”
“Statelessness
is estimated to have affected
at least 10 million persons in 2013.
However, data
captured by governments and communicated
to UNHCR
were limited to 3.5 million stateless
individuals in 75 countries.
”
“More
than 5.4 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate (46%) resided in
countries where the GDP per capita was below USD 5,000.”
“Developing
countries hosted 86 per cent of the world’s refugees, compared to
70 per cent 10 years ago. This is the highest value in more than two
decades. The Least Developed Countries were providing asylum to 2.8
million refugees by year-end.”
“More
than half (53%) of all refugees worldwide came from just three
countries: Afghanistan (2.56 million), the Syrian Arab Republic (2.47
million), and Somalia (1.12 million).”
“Close
to 1.1 million individuals submitted
applications for asylum or
refugee
status in 2013. UNHCR offices registered a
record high of
203,200 or 19 per cent of these
claims. With 109,600 asylum claims,
Germany
was for the first time since 1999 the world’s
largest
recipient of new individual applications,
followed by the United
States of America
(84,400) and South Africa (70,000).
”
“Some
25,300 asylum applications were lodged by
unaccompanied or separated
children
in 77 countries in 2013, mostly by Afghan, South
Sudanese,
and Somali children. This was the
highest number on record since
UNHCR started
collecting such data in 2006.
”
“Over
the course of 2013, 414,600 refugees returned to their countries of
origin. Two-thirds of these returned to the Syrian Arab Republic
(140,800), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (68,400), or Iraq
(60,900). This figure was the fourth lowest level of refugee returns
in almost 25 years.”
“Children
below 18 years constituted 50 per
cent of the refugee population in
2013, the
highest figure in a decade.
”
The
report in various languages here:
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