2018 Displacement Trends

  1. Almost 70.8 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations.
  2. An estimated 13.6 million people were newly displaced due to conflict or persecution in 2018. This included 10.8 million individuals displaced within the borders of their own country and 2.8 million new refugees and new asylum-seekers.
  3. The number of new displacements was equivalent to an average of 37,000 people being forced to flee their homes every day in 2018.
  4. In 2018, just 92,424 refugees were resettled from one country to another, less than 0.4% of the total refugee population. Australia’s resettlement - 12,706 in 2018, ranked third overall for resettlement (behind Canada and USA)
  5. Asylum-seekers submitted 1.7 million new claims. – USA 254,300 (world’s largest recipient of new individual applications), followed by Peru (192,500) Germany (161,900), France (114,500),  Turkey (83,800) and Australia granted (10,300) TPVs. ​

Altogether, more than two thirds (67 per cent) of all refugees worldwide came from just five countries: Syrian 6.7 million, Afghanistan 2.7 million, South Sudan, 2.3 million, Myanmar 1.1 million, Somalia 0.9 million
Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide, with 3.7 million people. The main countries of asylum for refugees: Turkey 3.7 million, Pakistan 1.4 million, Uganda 1.2 million, Sudan 1.1 million, Germany 1.1 million

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