Humanitarian crises in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to increase in scope, scale and complexity in 2025, while decreasing donor funding will not keep pace with the rising needs.
In 2025, UNHCR will seek the fulfilment of over 150 pledges made at the Global Refugee Forum.
By mid-2024, the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region hosted 5.4 million refugees and 18.8 million IDPs, with conflicts and El Niño-induced floods driving further displacement and impacting hundreds of thousands.
Millions have fled conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
In 2025, UNHCR is appealing for $1.24 billion to respond to the needs of forcibly displaced and stateless people across Europe.
Europe remains among the regions with the highest number of displaced people globally, hosting 13.2 million refugees, including more than 6.2 million from Ukraine.
The Middle East and North Africa region is grappling with new and long-standing challenges related to forced displacement. Complex political and security environments are exacerbated by adverse global socioeconomic conditions, high inflation, dwindling donor interest, and decreasing tolerance for those supported by UNHCR.
By mid-2024, there were 16.6 million forcibly displaced and stateless people in the region.
The 16 countries that make up the southern Africa region host more than 10.1 million forcibly displaced people, returnees and stateless people.
At the same time, 1 million refugees were living in protracted displacement situations and an increasing number were moving onwards, joining others as part of mixed movements of refugees and migrants on routes within and to sub-Saharan Africa.
By mid-2024, the Americas hosted 20.3 million forcibly displaced or stateless people. This situation was primarily driven by displacement in Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America), the Andean region, and the Caribbean.
In the first eight months of 2024, 240,000 refugees and migrants crossed the Darién jungle-
Political instability, new and protracted conflicts, and widespread insecurity are expected to continue driving displacement in West and Central Africa in 2025.
The number of forcibly displaced is expected to climb from 14.3 million at the end of 2024 to around 15.2 million by the end of 2025, an increase of 6%.
