UNHCR: More than 114 million displaced people in the world in 2023

January 1, 2024 (Anatolia) - More than 114 million people in the world were forced to flee their homes in 2023, and behind this shocking figure are women, men, children and families, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Sunday.

This came in a post published by the UN on its account on the "X" platform.

UNHCR noted that the number of forcibly displaced people in 2023 exceeded 114 million, compared to 51.2 million in 2013, adding that the increase in the number of forcibly displaced people in the world is primarily due to wars, persecution, violence and human rights violations.

"We must make 2024 the year of solutions to the refugee and displaced crisis," the organization said.
According to a previous report, UNHCR said that "the war in Ukraine, the conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan are among the main drivers of forced displacement in the first half of 2023."

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said in a press statement published on the organization's website, "The world's focus is now on the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, which makes sense, but conflicts around the world are increasing or escalating, ravaging the lives of innocent people and causing the displacement of populations."