Forced Displacement in 2016 – Record High – Global Trends – UNHCR Report – Gender
Author: WUNRN
Date: July 11, 2017
GLOBAL TRENDS – FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN 2016 – GENDER
War, violence and persecution worldwide are causing more people than ever to be forcibly displaced, according to a report published by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
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WUNRN understands complexities of securing sex disaggregated date but hopes for more gender specific statistics in the future.
Despite UNHCR’s efforts to improve data availability, it has become increasingly difficult to obtain disaggregated data in many countries where the agency is not involved in primary data collection, with a number of countries ceasing to provide UNHCR with disaggregated data. Based on the available data, 49 per cent of refugees were women in 2016 (Table 5). This was a small increase over 2015 but consistent with trends in earlier years. As in 2014 and 2015, the proportion of children under the age of 18 among refugees remained at 51 per cent. In addition, there was a change of only one percentage point in the working age (18-59) and older (60 plus) populations, which were 45 per cent and 4 per cent of the total population, respectively. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa hosted refugee populations with a higher proportion of children, reflective of the younger population structure in the region.
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