Abstract: In 2013, the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution stood at 51.2 million, including 16.7 million refugees. More than half of all refugees came from Afghanistan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Somalia. The number of persons displaced within their own country as a result of conflict was an estimated 33.3 million—the highest number ever recorded—of whom 23.9 million benefited from unhcr protection and assistance. The number of identifiable stateless persons stood at 3.5 million. Some 1.1 million individual applications for asylum or refugee status were submitted to Governments or unhcr offices during the year. An estimated 414,600 refugees were able to return home voluntarily, the lowest level in a decade.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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