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More than 10 million Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes

31.03.2022
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/25/after-a-month-of-war-ukrainian-refugee-crisis-ranks-among-the-worlds-worst-in-recent-history/

Russia's invasion of Ukraine created one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. More than 3.7 million Ukrainians fled to neighboring countries in the month after the start of the war, the sixth-largest refugee flow in more than 60 years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of United Nations data.

According to data compiled by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are now almost as many Ukrainian refugees as there were Afghan refugees fleeing the (first) Taliban regime in 2001. They make up about 9.1% of Ukraine's pre-invasion population of about 41.1 million, placing the current crisis 16th out of 28 major refugee crises by population share.

The Center examined all cases in the UNHCR database since 1960 that had at least 500,000 refugees and similarly displaced persons from a particular country during the course of a year. The analysis does not include "internally displaced persons" - those who have been forced to leave their usual homes but have not yet crossed an international border. Earlier this week, UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi estimated that a total of more than 10 million Ukrainians — nearly a quarter of the population — have been displaced either internally or externally as a result of the war.

 

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