UNHCR Global Trends: 129.4 million forcibly displaced and stateless people at end-2025
An ecoi.net post of 24 June 2026 summarises UNHCR's Global Trends report, including refugee, displacement, return and statelessness figures.
Report · 24 June 2026
ecoi.net, run by the Austrian Red Cross, summarises the UNHCR Global Trends report in a post dated 24 June 2026. This item summarises that post, not the UNHCR report itself.
The post reports 129.4 million forcibly displaced and stateless people, including 28.5 million refugees, 64.2 million internally displaced people and 9 million asylum seekers, with about 41% of refugees children.
It also reports 14.7 million returns of displaced people in 2025 and about 4.5 million stateless people at the end of the year. The largest hosts it names are Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Uganda and Iran.
It quotes Eurostat that EU countries granted protection to 361,325 asylum seekers in 2025, down 17.5% on 2024.
ecoi.net – UNHCR reports 129.4 million displaced and stateless people, down from 129.9
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