Editing Refugee (section)

==Refugee crisis==
{{Main|Refugee crisis}}
{{See also|List of countries by refugee population}}

[[File:South sudan refugees in wau - e - 2016 12.png|thumb|Refugee camp in [[South Sudan]], 2016]]

[[Refugee crisis]] can refer to movements of large groups of [[forced displacement|displaced persons]], who could be either [[internally displaced person]]s, refugees or other migrants. It can also refer to incidents in the country of origin or departure, to large problems whilst on the move or even after arrival in a safe country that involve large groups of displaced persons.
At the end of 2020, the UNHCR estimated the number of forcibly displaced people to be about 82.4 million worldwide. Of those, 26.4 million (nearly a third) are refugees while 4.1 million were classified as [[asylum seeker]]s and 48 million being internally displaced. 68% of refugees originates from just five countries ([[Syria]], [[Venezuela]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[South Sudan]] and [[Myanmar]]). 86% of refugees are hosted in [[developing countries]], with [[Turkey]], hosting 3.7 million refugees, being the top hosting country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html|title=Figures at a glance &#124; UNHCR US}}</ref>

In 2006, there were 8.4 million UNHCR registered refugees worldwide, the lowest number since 1980. At the end of 2015, there were 16.1 million refugees worldwide. When adding the 5.2 million [[Palestinian refugees]] who are under [[UNRWA]]'s mandate there were 21.3 million refugees worldwide. The overall forced displacement worldwide has reached a total of 65.3 million displaced persons at the end of 2015, while it was 59.5 million 12 months earlier. One in every 113 people globally is an [[asylum seeker]] or a refugee. In 2015, the total number of displaced people worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers and [[internally displaced persons]], was at its highest level on record.{{sfn|Refugees at highest|2016}}

[[File:MALTESER Ukrainehilfe (51926526000).jpg|thumb|upright|[[2022–present Ukrainian refugee crisis|Ukrainian refugees]] fleeing the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]], 5 March 2022]]
Among them, [[Syrian refugees]] were the largest group in 2015 at 4.9 million.<ref name="UNHCR">{{cite web|title=Global Trends Forced Displacement 2015|date=20 June 2016|publisher=UNHCR |url=http://www.unhcr.org/576408cd7.pdf |access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref> In 2014, Syrians had overtaken [[Afghan refugees]] (2.7 million), who had been the largest refugee group for three decades.{{sfn|Unhcr|2015}} Somalis were the third largest group with one million. The countries hosting the largest number of refugees according to UNHCR were Turkey (2.5 million), [[Pakistan]] (1.6 million), [[Lebanon]] (1.1 million) and [[Iran]] (1 million).<ref name="UNHCR"/> the countries that had the largest numbers of [[internally displaced people]] were [[Colombia]] at 6.9, Syria at 6.6 million and [[Iraq]] at 4.4 million.

Children were 51% of refugees in 2015 and most of them were separated from their parents or travelling alone. In 2015, 86% of the refugees under [[UNHCR]]'s mandate were in low and middle-income countries that themselves are close to situations of conflict.{{sfn|Edwards|2016}} Refugees have historically tended to flee to nearby countries with ethnic kin populations and a history of accepting other co-ethnic refugees.{{sfn|Rüegger|Bohnet|2015}} The [[religion|religious]], [[sect]]arian and [[religious denomination|denominational]] affiliation has been an important feature of debate in refugee-hosting nations.{{sfn|Bassel|2012|page=84}}

An ongoing [[2022–present Ukrainian refugee crisis|refugee crisis]] began in Europe in late February 2022 after [[Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]. Over 8.2 million refugees fleeing Ukraine have been recorded across Europe,<ref>{{cite web|title=Refugees fleeing Ukraine (since 24 February 2022)|work=UNHCR|url=https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine|date=2022|access-date=3 October 2022|archive-date=10 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310051210/https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine|url-status=live}}</ref> while an estimated 8 million others had been [[Internally displaced person|displaced within the country]] by late May 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2022/5/628a389e4/unhcr-ukraine-other-conflicts-push-forcibly-displaced-total-100-million.html | title=UNHCR: Ukraine, other conflicts push forcibly displaced total over 100 million for first time }}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|+ style="text-align: left;" |Refugees and people in refugee-like situations by region between 2008 and 2022

! scope="col" style="width: 110px;"|Region<br />(UN major area)
!2022<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Global Trends - Forced displacement in 2022 |url=https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends-report-2022 |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
!2021<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Global Trends - Forced displacement in 2021 |url=https://www.unhcr.org/media/40152 |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
!2020<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Global Trends - Forced displacement in 2020 |url=https://www.unhcr.org/statistics/unhcrstats/60b638e37/global-trends-forced-displacement-2020.html |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
!2019
<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Global Trends - Forced displacement in 2019 |url=https://www.unhcr.org/media/unhcr-global-trends-2019 |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
! 2018<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Global forced displacement trends. 2018 (Annexes) |url=https://www.unhcr.org/5d08d7ee7.pdf |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
! 2017<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Global forced displacement trends. 2017 (Annexes) |url=https://www.unhcr.org/5b27be547.pdf |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
! 2016<ref>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |url=http://www.unhcr.org/5943e8a34.pdf |access-date=8 May 2018 |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees}}</ref>
! 2014<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2014 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2013<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2013 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2012<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2012 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2011 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2010<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2010 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2009<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2009 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
! 2008<ref>{{cite web |title=Global forced displacement trends. (Annexes) UNHCR Statistical Yearbook |date=2008 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html |publisher=United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
|-
|Africa 
|7,545,579
|7,483,184
|7,064,848
|6,803,799
|6,775,502
|6,687,326||5,531,693||4,126,800||3,377,700||3,068,300||2,924,100||2,408,700||2,300,100||2,332,900
|-
|Asia 
|12,271,919
|9,845,603
|9,753,909
|9,892,341
|10,111,523
|9,945,930||8,608,597||7,942,100||6,317,500||5,060,100||5,104,100||5,715,800||5,620,500||5,706,400
|-
|Europe 
|8,728,098
|3,189,403
|3,000,709
|2,958,113
|2,760,771
|2,602,942||2,300,833||1,500,500||1,152,800||1,522,100||1,534,400||1,587,400||1,628,100||1,613,400
|-
|[[Latin America and the Caribbean]] 
|292,860
|265,306
|305,887
|255,501
|215,924
|252,288||322,403||352,700||382,000||380,700||377,800||373,900||367,400||350,300
|-
|[[Northern America]] 
|507,782
|473,211
|453,804
|446,151
|427,350
|391,907||370,291||416,400||424,000||425,800||429,600||430,100||444,900||453,200
|-
|Oceania 
|66,795
|70,210
|71,158
|89,994
|69,492
|60,954||53,671||46,800||45,300||41,000||34,800||33,800||35,600||33,600
|-
|Total 
|29,413,033
|21,326,917
|20,650,315
|20,445,899
|20,360,562
|19,941,347||17,187,488||14,385,300||11,699,300||10,498,000||10,404,800||10,549,700||10,396,600||10,489,800
|}