![]() Given the numerous new and existing displacement situations, the lower number of new asylum applications reflects continued travel restrictions and barriers relating to access to territory that resulted from the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, the number of new individual asylum applications registered globally increased by 25 per cent, from 1.1 million to 1.4 million, compared with the previous year, although this remains lower than the 1.7 million and two million applications in 20, respectively. In addition, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen all reported increases of between 100,000 and 500,000 people displaced internally during the year.Ĭountries receiving most asylum applications ![]() With renewed displacement from Venezuela, primarily to other Latin American countries, the number of Venezuelans displaced abroad also grew by more than half a million. In Myanmar, the military takeover in February 2021 ignited widespread violence and forced many people to flee. The climate crisis, with temperatures in the region rising 1.5 times faster than the global average, is making the humanitarian situation even worse. The root causes of conflict in the region include extreme poverty and chronic underdevelopment. ![]() Violent insurgencies in the central Sahel region of Africa continued to drive internal displacement, particularly in Burkina Faso. The conflict in the Tigray region in Ethiopia led to at least 2.5 million more people being displaced within their country, with about 1.5 million of them returning to their homes during the course of the year. ![]() The number of people displaced internally rose for the 15th straight year, even as more than 790,000 Afghans returned during the year. ![]()
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