Refugee Facts

  • The global refugee population reached 42.5 million in mid-2025.
  • Between 2018 and 2024, an average of 337,800 children were born as refugees per year.
  • 67% of refugees are from just 5 countries – Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan.
  • 66% of the world’s refugees live in countries neighbouring their country of origin.

(All figures from United Nations Refugee Agency)

Find out more

United Nations Refugee Agency

Refugee Support Network

Refugee Council

Help Refugees (Choose Love)

Focus on Refugees (Churches Together in Britain and Ireland)

Church Response for Refugees

Jesuit Refugee Service UK

Refugee Action

Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project

Louth Area of Sanctuary