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UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include 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.
Many refugees in Africa cross into neighboring countries to find haven; often, African countries are simultaneously countries of origin for refugees and countries of asylum for other refugees. The Democratic Republic of Congo , for instance, was the country of origin for 462,203 refugees at the end of 2004, but a country of asylum for 199,323 ...
Similarly, of the 8 million refugees, only about 10 percent live in refugee camps, with the vast majority living in both urban and rural areas of neighboring countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Beside Syrians, they include Iraqis , Palestinians , Kurds , Yazidis , individuals from Somalia , and a minority of those who fled the Yemeni and Sudanese civil wars.
Most refugees have arrived in smaller, poorer European countries. Poland has taken in an estimated 2 million; Ukraine's other EU neighbors — Romania, Slovakia and Hungary — have also seen high ...
A U.N. refugee agency official said on Tuesday that some 1 million Syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the first six months of 2025, asking states to refrain from forcing them ...
A study of refugees to the United States found that "refugees that enter the U.S. before age 14 graduate high school and enter college at the same rate as natives. Refugees that enter as older teenagers have lower attainment with much of the difference attributable to language barriers and because many in this group are not accompanied by a ...
New security upgrades to the U.S. refugee admissions program will ... U.S. refugee admissions program will help block suspected criminals from entering the United States from "high-risk" countries.