REFUGEES PROTECTED IN AUSTRALIA AT 7-YEAR HIGH, UNHCR DATA SHOWS

19 June 2024 REFUGEES PROTECTED IN AUSTRALIA AT 7-YEAR HIGH, UNHCR DATA SHOWS The number of refugees granted protection or resettlement in Australia in 2023 reached its second highest level in more than 40 years, the Refugee Council of Australia’s analysis of data from UNHCR’s new Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2023 report reveals. [...] The granting of more than 12,000 permanent visas to refugees previously on temporary protection visas pushed the number of refugees recognised or resettled in Australia in 2023 to 29,892, the highest level since the height of Australia’s special intake of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in 2016. [...] As those internally displaced include more than 1 million Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, UNHCR estimates the total number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2023 at 117.3 million, an increase of 8.9 million people on the previous year. [...] 21,292 - 28 21,320 32 3.820 17 8958.00 2 Mexico - - 19,956 19,956 33 0.160 60 13.60 67 Finland - 18,710 1,039 19,749 34 3.560 18 69.90 35 Togo - - 19,333 19,333 35 2.180 27 2318.10 5 Australia - - 14,669 14,669 36 0.560 46 8.70 72 Congo, Republic of 14,068 - 182 14,250 37 2.390 24 900.80 8 Sweden - 10,860 2,798 13,658 38 1.290 34 23.10 59 Estonia - 8,760 3,848 12,608 39 9.510 3 330.90 19 Lithuania. [...] 7,130 - 5,663 12,793 19 Myanmar 1,911 - 9,848 11,759 20 Cameroon 8,887 20 1,883 10,790 21 Ethiopia 415 - 9,565 9,980 22 Colombia - 5 9,005 9,010 23 Pakistan - 50 8,419 8,469 24 El Salvador - - 8,376 8,376 25 Palestine 86 20 8,087 8,193 26 Russian Federation - 1,414 6,277 7,691 27 China - - 7,542 7,542 28 Yemen 1,258 - 5,021 6,279 29 India - - 5,634 5,634 30 Haiti - - 4,639 4,639 31 Nicaragua - - 4.