Wars pushed the number of displaced people forcibly to its highest levels in a decade

According to the report “Global trends“The annual of the High Commissioner for Refugees today, Thursday, the number of forcibly displaced people reached 122.1 million by the end of April 2025 – an increase in the same period last year in which the number reached 120 million – which represents an annual increase over a decade in the numbers of refugees and other forced to flee their homes.

The major conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine are still the main factors of displacement, as well as the continuous failure to stop the fighting.

Syria and Sudan: Exchanging places in the global displacement crisis

After more than 13 years of civil conflict, Syria was previously considered the largest global displacement crisis, with 13.5 million people. But this is no longer the case. Last December, the Assad regime is new hope that most Syrians will return to their homes soon. Until May, about half a million refugees and 1.2 million displaced internally returned to their original areas.

But this is not the only reason that made Syria lose its title as the largest displacement crisis in the world.

It has led more than two years of the civil war in Sudan to overcome Syria in the number of displaced people to record the largest internal displacement crisis ever. Since April 2022, 14.3 million people – of whom 11.6 million are displaced internally. This number represents a third of the total population of Sudan,

The UNHCR report highlights the tremendous size of this problem, indicating cases of displacement “Unbearable in an unbearable”. However, the report also carries “ray of hope”Despite the direct impact of aid discounts in the capitals of the world this year.

The High Commissioner for Refugees, Philipo Grande says: “We live in a time characterized by severe fluctuations in international relations, where modern wars create a fragile and horrific scene characterized by severe human suffering.”

Searching for a place to live in peace

Honest and her son refugees faced repeated displacement. Flu from Myanmar after the killing of a honest husband in 2024. In Bangladesh, they lived in a Muslim refugee camp, but the camp was crowded, which prompted them to flee again through a boat.

I went up on the boat without knowing where to go. In the end, the ship was rescued after weeks at the sea, and now, she and her son live in Indonesia. Sincerely said: “We are looking for a place we can live in peace.”

There are countless stories like an honest story. However, Mr. Grande said that there is a “glimmer of hope” in the report. This year, 188,800 refugees have been resettled permanently in the host countries in 2024, the highest number to be registered over 40 years.

Moreover, 9.8 million people returned to their homes in 2024 – including 1.6 million refugees and 8.2 million displaced internally – most of them in Afghanistan and Syria.

Searching for permanent solutions

While the return of 8.2 million internal displaced people to their homes is the second largest number registered in one year, the report indicated the continued challenges faced by the returnees.. For example, last year witnessed the deportation of many Afghan and Haiti refugees from their host countries.

The report emphasized that the return must be voluntary and that the dignity and safety of the return must be prescribed as soon as it reaches its original area. This requires building a long -term peace and is wider in sustainable development.

Mr. Grande said: “The search for peace must be at the heart of all efforts aimed at finding permanent solutions for refugees and others who were forced to flee their homes.”

Harsh discounts in financing

In the past decade, the number of people who have been forcibly displaced all over the world doubled, but the financing levels received by the High Commissioner for Refugees have remained largely unchanged..

The report pointed out that this deficiency in increasing financing exposes the already vulnerable societies to danger and increases the stability of regional peace. The commission said, “The situation is unbearable, which exacerbates the weakness of the refugees and other fleeing.”