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A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as a result of who they are, what they believe in or say, or because of armed conflict, violence or serious public disorder." Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the UNHCR if they formally make a claim for asylum.
A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee their home country to escape persecution based on their identity or beliefs, or due to armed conflict and violence, and cannot safely return. Understanding refugees matters because it involves recognizing the circumstances that drive people from their homes and the international legal protections designed to help those in such desperate situations.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Refugees in 2024
- Ethnic group.population
- 122.6 million forcibly displaced, including: 72.1 million internally displaced 8 million seeking asylum 43.7 million refugees, of which: 32 million are under the mandate of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 6 million are Palestinians under UNRWA's mandate, and 5.8 million are others in need of international protection
- Ethnic group.region1
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 7.0 million
- Ethnic group.region2
- Europe and North Asia
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 12.4 million
- Ethnic group.region3
- Asia and the Pacific
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 6.8 million
- Ethnic group.region4
- Middle East and North Africa
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 2.4 million
- Ethnic group.region5
- Americas
- Ethnic group.pop5
- 800,000
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Research
23,518 papers- Refugee mental health: Culturally relevant considerations.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2022Mattar S, Gellatly RDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101429
- Mental health in refugee children.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2022Dangmann C, Dybdahl R, Solberg ØDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101460
- Middle eastern refugee children and adolescents mental health: A systematic review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2023Oleimat AS, Jones C, Hayter MDOI: 10.1111/inm.13088
- Building on Resiliencies of Refugee Families.ReviewPediatric clinics of North America · 2019Fabio M, Parker LD, Siddharth MBDOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.02.011
- Refugee mental health and the role of place in the Global North countries: A scoping review.Health & place · 2023Ermansons G, Kienzler H, Asif Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102964
- Successful Refugee Cohabitation With Host Families: A Concept Analysis and Model Development.ReviewJournal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association · 2025Al-Hamad A, Yasin YM, Metersky K et al.DOI: 10.1177/08980101241273878
- Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures.ReviewJournal of public health policy · 2021Siddiq H, Rosenberg JDOI: 10.1057/s41271-021-00296-9
- How refugee youth use social media: what does this mean for improving their health and welfare?Journal of public health policy · 2020Pottie K, Ratnayake A, Ahmed R et al.DOI: 10.1057/s41271-020-00231-4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
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- Subclass of
- displaced person
- Image
- A Dutch school teacher leads a group of refugee children just disembarked from a ship at Tilbury Docks in Essex during 1945. D24064.jpg
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