46% of Refugees In The World Come From Four Countries

46 percent of refugees in the world come from four countries with East Africa having two in the pack.

According to stats released by the World Bank, 5,500,000 refugees are from Syria, 2,500,000 from Afghanistan, 1,400,000 from South Sudan and 1,000,000 from Somalia.

World Bank says an unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from their homes. Among the displaced, 22.5 million of them are refugees with half of them being below the age of 18.

51 of the refugees around the world are children with 84 percent of the refugees being hosted by developing regions.

By 2015, according to World Bank, 52,000 refugees were living in camps in Europe and Central Asia with 4 million living in other regions. 269,000 were living in camps in the Middle East and North America while 3 million were living in other regions.

Sub Saharan Africa had the highest number of refugees in 2015 with 3,000,000 of them living in camps and 2,000,000 others living in other regions (outside the camps).

Latin America and the Caribbean had only 802 refugees in camps and 337,000 in other regions while East Asia and Pacific had 407,000 refugees in camps and 155,000 in other regions.

“As of June 2017, some 5,000 asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants in Serbia remain in legal limbo – with no way forward. Most of these people came from Afghanistan (62 percent), Iraq (13 percent), Pakistan (12 percent) and Syria (5 percent).

According to the World Bank, forced displacement causes enormous human suffering, particularly for the extremely poor and vulnerable, including youth, women, and children.

Kenya has hundreds of thousands of refugees (more than 400,000) with 58.2 percent coming from Somalia, 22.9 percent from South Sudan, 7.3 percent from Congo with 5.8 percent being from Sudan, Rwanda, Eritrea, Burundi, and Uganda.

49 percent of the refugee in Kenya reside in Dadaab camp, 38 percent in Kakuma camp and 13 percent in other urban areas mainly Nairobi.