123 million people displaced worldwide in 2024 – UNHCR

The UN High Commission for refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that 123.2 million people worldwide were displaced by the end of last year.

The agency, in his latest report, highlighted the scale of the problem, said the figure was the highest in a decade.

According to the report, 73.5 million people worldwide have fled in their own country, and 42.7 million refugees live outside their borders.

This shows that 73 percent is held in low and middle income countries, while 67 percent is held in neighboring countries.

“We live during intense volatility in international relations, with a modern war created a fragile and terrible landscape marked by the suffering of acute human beings,” the high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi, said.

However, I said there were a number of “rays of hope” despite the direct impact of cutting aid in the capital city this year.

“This year, 188,800 refugees were permanently recalled into host countries in 2024, the highest number in 40 years,” said the Head of the UN refugees.

The report noted that the high number of refugees was mostly driven by protracted conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine.

It is said 9.8 million people returned home in 2024, including 1.6 million refugees and 8.2 million internal refugees, mostly in Afghanistan and Syria.

The report noted that 8.2 million refugees returning to the house representing the calculation of the second largest single year in the record.

“For example, many Afghan and Haiti refugees who returned to home last year were deported from their host countries,” he said.