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Europe is expected to remain among the regions with the highest number of displaced people globally in 2025.

Global Appeal 2025 | Regional Overview

 

Previous Global Appeal regional overviews:
2024 | 2023
Previous Global Report regional overviews:
2023 | 2022 | 2021
 

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A man standing in front of a completely destroyed house
“It’s a miracle that I am alive,” says Serhii, 57, after a missile injured him and destroyed his house in Kryvyi Rih in southeast Ukraine. Through UNHCR’s partners Proliska and Right to Protection, Serhii received immediate emergency shelter, essential items, psychosocial support, and legal counselling. © UNHCR/Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund
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Global Appeal 2025 | Regional Overview

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. As of mid-2024, Germany and Türkiye had some of the largest refugee and asylum-seeker populations, hosting over 3 million and 3.3 million respectively. 

To read more about UNHCR’s planning for 2025 in Europe, please download the regional overview PDF.

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Populations

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Host communities
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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.

Population by country

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.

Population by origin

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder.

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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: 2025 budget and 2024 current budget are taken from the budget document approved by UNHCR's Executive Committee in October 2024.

Budget by Outcome and Enabling Areas

Source: 2025 budget and 2024 current budget are taken from the budget document approved by UNHCR's Executive Committee in October 2024.

Budget by operation

Source: 2025 budget and 2024 current budget are taken from the budget document approved by UNHCR's Executive Committee in October 2024.

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