Number of forcibly displaced people dips to 118 million: UN

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47% : Refugee resettlement needed The UN refugee agency meanwhile voiced concern over a narrowing space for refugee resettlement last year, estimating that the number of refugees needing to resettle in third countries stood at 2.9 million.
46% : Unsafe returns UN refugee chief Barham Salih told reporters in Geneva that "more than 90%" of refugee returns last year were concentrated in Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria.
42% : The number of forcibly displaced people dropped for the first time in a decade last year, as more opted to return home despite often unsafe and unstable conditions, the UN said Thursday.
42% : At the end of 2025, 117.8 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes, marking a decline of 5.4 million compared to a year earlier, the UN refugee agency said.
33% : They included the Mideast war launched by United States and Israel in February, which it said had forced 3.2 million people from their homes in Iran alone.

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