Global Protracted Refugee Situations (7 Dec 2016)
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Approximately 12 million people lived in protracted refugee situations around the world at the end of 2015,* comprising nearly two-thirds of the global refugee population. A protracted refugee situation exists when 25,000 or more refugees originating from the same country have sought refuge in another country for at least five consecutive years.
*These numbers include people in a refugee-like situation