Global forced displacement falls to 118M in 2025, first decline in a decade

Over 4 million refugees were forcibly or coercively returned to their countries of origin, many to regions still experiencing armed conflict.

For the first time in ten years, the number of forcibly displaced people in the world has fallen — a figure that might, in another moment, be received as cause for quiet hope. In 2025, approximately 118 million people remained displaced globally, a 3 percent reduction documented by the UNHCR. But beneath this statistical turning point lies a harder truth: a record number of refugees were returned to their countries of origin, many of them coerced or compelled, many of them sent back into the very conflicts they had once risked everything to escape. The numbers have shifted, but the suffering t

Global forced displacement falls to 118M in 2025, first decline in a decade

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