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Under international law, a refugee is a person who has fled their own country of nationality or habitual residence, and cannot return due to fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
The list below includes data for refugee crises with at least 1 million refugees, not including internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events. Rows highlighted in blue indicate ongoing events.
There are more than 26 million refugees worldwide who have fled to other countries.
This Sunday, June 20, marks the 20th anniversary of World Refugee Day -- a day established by the United Nations in 2001 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the ...
Since World War II, more refugees have found homes in the U.S. than any other nation and more than two million refugees have arrived in the U.S. since 1980. Of the top ten countries accepting resettled refugees in 2006, the United States accepted more than twice as much as the next nine countries combined. [119]
The country has around 600,000 people of Ukrainian descent, about 38,000 of whom live in Prudentópolis, according to the Ukrainian-Brazilian Central Representation. [287] From 3 February until 19 March, Brazil had received almost 900 Ukrainian refugees according to Brazilian police. [288]
Thousands of Ukrainian citizens have died since Russia invaded in 2022 and more than 6 million are refugees abroad. Russia has said it had no choice but to launch what it calls its "special ...
Refugees have historically tended to flee to nearby countries with ethnic kin populations and a history of accepting other co-ethnic refugees. [169] The religious, sectarian and denominational affiliation has been an important feature of debate in refugee-hosting nations. [170]