The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on June 13 released the “Global Trends in Displacement” report, saying the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of 2023, and warned that this figure could rise further if no major global political changes took place.
- In its report the UN refugee agency said that there had been a yearly increase in the number of people forcibly displaced over the last twelve years.
- UNHCR estimates that forced displacement has continued to increase in the first four months of 2024, and that is likely to have exceeded 120 million by the end of April.
- These are refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, people being forced by conflict, by persecution, by different and increasingly complex forms of violence.
- A major contributor to the egregious numbers found in the report is due to war between rival militaries in Sudan which saw 10.8 million uprooted by the end of 2023.
