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There are multiple factors driving these annual increases, UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner, Kelly Clements, told NPR."We've got wars and conflicts that wage on without a solution in places like Afghanistan, Syria, now Ukraine, Venezuela, Myanmar -- those are the protracted situations. And then we have new crises and new wars."
Many millions of others though have been forced to abandon their homes and seek shelter elsewhere inside Sudan, labeled as Internally Displaced People, or IDPs. The UNHCR report shows that there were more IDPs worldwide at the end of 2023 - 68.3 million - than there were citizens of the United Kingdom.
UNHCR was established following the Second World War to help with the rehousing of the many millions of people who had been made homeless during that years-long conflict, and it now operates across dozens of countries worldwide.