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Title: $Refugees and displaced persons
Abstract: In 2002, the total number of persons of concern to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees( UNHCR) stood at 20.8 million, an increase over the 2001 figure of 19.8 million. Of that number, some 11.5 million were refugees, 4.4 million were internally displaced persons, 3.5 million returned to their places of origin, 927,684 were asylum-seekers and the remaining 445,970 included forced migrants and stateless persons.