22.06.2022
World Refugee Day 2022 : Global Displacement Hits a Record 100m
While the Ukraine war significantly increased global displacement, the figures have more than doubled over the past two decades and have risen each of the past 10 years . The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report 2021, published last Thursday, found that by the end of 2021, 89.3 million individuals worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, violent conflict, human rights violations, or events “seriously disturbing public order.” This figure, which has risen each of the past 10 years, is more than double the 42.7 million people displaced at the end of 2001 two decades earlier. In last year’s Global Trends report, UNHCR predicted that “the question is no longer if forced displacement will exceed 100 million people, but rather when.” Sure enough, as of May 23, 2022, forced displacement globally reached over 100 million people. This means one in every 70 people on earth has been forced to flee their homes. The world has a choice: either come together to reverse the trend of persecution, violence, and war, or accept that the legacy of the 21st century is one of continued forced displacement.
Global displacement through 2021
Global displacement through 2021
- Low- and middle-income countries hosted 83% of the world’s refugees
- Türkiye remained the world’s largest refugee-hosting country, with over 3.8 million refugees, or 15% of all globally displaced people
- Relative to population size, Lebanon hosted the largest number of refugees (1 in 8), compared to Türkiye’s 1 in 23.
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
