The Largest Refugee Crisis in Decades
The current refugee crisis has been driven by civil wars in Yemen and Syria as well as other intrastate conflicts in Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
This bar chart shows the total global refugee population and the share of refugees per 1,000 people in the world's population from 1960 to 2019. The data shows that the current refugee crisis has been driven by civil wars in Yemen and Syria as well as other intrastate conflicts in Afghanistan, Venezuela, and elsewhere, causing one of the largest refugee crises in decades.
