Thursday 20 June 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point. DW Urdu. June 20, 2024) According to a report released by the United Nations Organization for Refugees (UNHCR) in June, the number of refugees by the end of last year was about one hundred and seventeen million. It was done.
A large number of these refugees fleeing the armed conflicts and oppression that have arisen around the world are forced to live a life of poverty.
Why are people forced to migrate? What are the dynamics of forced displacement? From which countries are emigrating more and in which countries do these homeless people seek refuge in search of a better life? Trying to figure it out statistically.
The number of homeless people is increasing
Eight out of every 1,000 people were forcibly displaced in 2014, while the latest UN report shows that by the end of 2023, fourteen out of every 1,000 people will be forced to migrate.
This means that the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has increased by fifty-eight million since 2014. The number of people who emigrated due to crises in their countries is more than the total population of Italy.
Most people became internally displaced
According to the United Nations report, out of 117.3 million people displaced worldwide, 68.3 million people are displaced within their own country.
This number is more than the population of Great Britain.
Internal migration means that these people were forced to move from their homes, communities, villages, villages and cities but did not go beyond the borders of their country.
These UNHCR figures relate only to persons displaced by violence and war. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) estimates that 7.7 million additional people have been displaced as a result of natural disasters and climate change ravages.
Where do most of the internally displaced come from?
An analysis of the United Nations report shows that most of the internally displaced people are from Africa and the Middle East.
Of the 68.3 million internally displaced people, 48 percent are from Africa, while 21 percent are from Middle Eastern countries.
Most of the internally or internally displaced persons in Sudan number about 900,000. This is about fourteen percent of the total number of people displaced in their own countries globally.
More than 100,000 people were displaced in the civil war-torn Syria, 660,000 in the People's Republic of Congo and 45,000,000 in Yemen.
European citizens were also forced to migrate internally
After the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Somalia, Cyprus lost the most people from their homes.
About 240,000 people are considered homeless in Cyprus. This constitutes twenty percent of the total population of Cyprus.
This is the case in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where large numbers of people have been displaced from their homes by conflicts dating back decades and have not yet been able to return to their homelands.
90% of refugees belong to only ten countries
According to this report of the United Nations, the number of refugees who sought refuge in other countries after leaving their countries is 43.4 million. This number is more than the total population of the European country Poland.
The UNHCR report also shows that most of the foreign asylum seekers are from Afghanistan.
9 out of every 10 migrants globally are Afghan. It is followed by Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, Sudan, Myanmar, People's Republic of Congo and Somalia.
Most of the refugees go to neighboring countries
According to this report of UNHCR, by the end of the year 2023, 69% of the total refugees who went to foreign countries were seeking asylum in neighboring countries.
Iran, Turkey, Colombia and Jordan have the largest number of refugees. Most of the refugees who have taken refuge in these countries are from Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela and Palestinian Territories.
Germany, for example, has sheltered millions of migrants from countries as far away as Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Eritrea.
A disproportionate number in developing countries
Germany has the highest number of refugees among the EU member states, which is around 2.5 million. However, on the other hand, Germany has sheltered very few refugees compared to Iran, Turkey, Jordan and Colombia.
There are three million refugees in Jordan, a country of about eleven million people, most of whom are displaced from the Palestinian territories.
Jordan is one of the countries hosting the largest number of refugees relative to its population.
Similarly, the African country of Chad is a poor country, but the number of refugees there is more than one million. In terms of population, this world's least developed country is sheltering twice as many refugees as Germany.
Problems in processing asylum applications
In addition to recognized refugees and internally displaced persons, there are seven million people who have submitted asylum applications or whose applications have been rejected.
According to the United Nations, the speed with which asylum applications are being filed has slowed the processing of these applications.
In 2023, decisions were made on 14 million asylum applications worldwide, but at the same time 56 million new applications were also received.
Due to the delay in new applications and decisions on them, Darbad people get stuck in legal complications.
According to UNHCR, there is an urgent need to speed up this process.
Return of displaced people to unsafe countries
In 2023, nearly 11 million asylum seekers were rejected and sent back to their countries of origin, even though the conditions in their countries or regions were unsafe.
There were also some people who returned to their countries despite the armed conflict, including Ukrainian citizens.
Rodrigo Manigault Schwansky (A.B., S.R.)
