Over 117 million people are forcibly displaced globally
UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency. At the end of June 2025, 117.3 million individuals worldwide remained forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
This represents 5.9 million fewer people remaining displaced than at the end of 2024, a decline of almost 5 per cent.
This change reflects a sharp increase in the returns of refugees and internally displaced people in some of the world’s largest displacement situations, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Syria. However, many of the returns have occurred under adverse conditions and to areas where insecurity persists and access to basic services is lacking or severely limited, raising concerns about the sustainability of these returns.
Returns to and within 7 countries accounted for 95 per cent of all returns of forcibly displaced people during the first half of 2025:
- the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.9 million)
- Syria (1.5 million)
- Sudan (1.2 million)
- Afghanistan (874,900)
- Ethiopia (438,100)
- Myanmar (261,500)
- Ukraine (306,300)
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