Bericht des UNHCR, 11.6.2026 (engl. Original)
Global forced displacement fell during 2025, for the first time in a decade. This change reflects a sharp increase in the returns of refugees and IDPs in some of the world’s largest displacement situations, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Syria. However, many of the returns occurred under adverse circumstances to fragile contexts where the reintegration conditions remain extremely challenging. Based on the reported statistics, the number of people worldwide forced to flee persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order and who remained displaced at the end of 2025 dropped to 117.8 million. This represents 5.4 million fewer people remaining displaced than at the end of 2024, a decline of 4 per cent. One in 70 people globally were forcibly displaced at the end of 2025.
The number of refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, including people in a refugee-like situation and other people in need of international protection, fell by nearly 1.2 million people to 35.6 million at end-2025. In addition, almost 6 million refugees were under the mandate of the UNRWA. New individual asylum applications during the year outpaced the number of decisions on those asylum claims, with the estimated number of asylum-seekers awaiting decisions on their claims growing by 645,300 to almost 9 million. IDPs accounted for 58 per cent of all those forced to flee, with 68.7 million remaining in displacement, 7 per cent, or 4.9 million, fewer than at the end of 2024.
During 2025, almost 5.4 million people were forced to flee and seek safety in other, predominantly neighbouring, countries.20 Eight countries accounted for nearly six in ten of them in 2025: Sudan (952,700), Ukraine (788,100),21 Venezuela (455,300), South Sudan (232,800), Burkina Faso (221,300), Afghanistan (191,400), Mali (177,200) and Myanmar (165,400).
Returns of refugees and IDPs increased by 50 per cent compared to 2024, reaching just over 14.7 million and constituted one of the highest return periods on record. However, most of the returns have occurred under adverse circumstances and to areas where insecurity persists, access to basic services is lacking or severely limited and infrastructure is damaged, raising concerns about their sustainability and protection risks upon return. Refugee returns to, and IDP returns within, six countries – the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3.6 million), Sudan (3.6 million), Syria (3.3 million), Afghanistan (2 million), Ukraine (718,300) and Myanmar (415,200) – accounted for 92 per cent of all returns of forcibly displaced people during 2025.
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