The number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution around the world is “untenably high, particularly as humanitarian funding evaporates”, said the UN refugee agency UNHCR on Thursday 12 June.
According to the UNHCR’s annual report, “there were 122.1 million forcibly displaced people by the end of April 2025, up from 120 million at the same time last year (...). The main drivers of displacement continue to be major conflicts such as those in Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine, and the continuing failure to end the fighting”.
Forcibly displaced people include people displaced within their own country by conflict, whose numbers have risen sharply by 6.3 million to 73.5 million at the end of 2024, and refugees fleeing their country (42.7 million people).
Sudan is now the country with the highest number of forced displacements in the world, with 14.3 million refugees and internally displaced people, ahead of Syria (13.5 million), followed by Afghanistan (10.3 million) and Ukraine (8.8 million). (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)