Refugee crisis in numbers

KARACHI: Earlier this year, a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report showed that Pakistan houses one of the world’s largest refugee population, most them hail from Afghanistan. The refugee crisis was termed the most challenging problem in the world last year.

On World Refugee Day, we decided to look at the geographical displacement – now considered the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War – of people in numbers, as taken from UNHCR.

68.5 million

is the number of displaced people worldwide

1.45 million

is the number of refugees hosted by Pakistan, most of which hail from Afghanistan

50%

of all refugees are under the age of 18

30

is the number of persons displaced every minute around the world

2002

is the year UNCHR facilitated the return of approximately 4.1 million registered Afghans from Pakistan

85%

of the world’s displaced people are being hosted by developing countries

57%

of refugees worldwide came from three countries: South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria

44,000

is the number of people who are forced to flee their homes everyday due to fear of conflict and persecution

102,800

is the number of people who have been resettled