Forced displacement is expected to rise in the Americas in 2023 as the root causes – violence, insecurity, inequality and human rights violations – persist.
Global report 2021 | Regional summary
The Americas
The Americas region hosted 18.4 million people of concern to UNHCR at the end of 2021, 20% of the global total. UNHCR supported governments’ digitization of national asylum systems and provided technical support to ensure access to asylum as COVID-19 border restrictions were gradually lifted. UNHCR advocated for national COVID-19 vaccination programmes to include forcibly displaced and stateless people, and many did so. UNHCR worked with civil society to support access to temporary collective shelters and strengthened access to individual shelters with rental programmes.
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Populations
total POC
Host communities
2022 mid-year figures
Note: The "Stateless" category does not include stateless people who are also in other categories, to avoid double counting. The total number of stateless, across all categories, is  .
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
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Population by country
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
Population by origin
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.
Financials
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Budget by impact areas
Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions
Source: 2023 budget as approved by the Executive Committee in October 2022.
2022 current budget as approved by the High Commissioner as of October 2022; pending presentation to the ExCom's Standing Committee.
Budget by outcome and enabling areas
Source: 2023 budget as approved by the Executive Committee in October 2022.
2022 current budget as approved by the High Commissioner as of October 2022; pending presentation to the ExCom's Standing Committee.
Budget by operation
Source: 2023 budget as approved by the Executive Committee in October 2022.
2022 current budget as approved by the High Commissioner as of October 2022; pending presentation to the ExCom's Standing Committee.