European Parliamentary Research Service By / March 15, 2024

The EUs share of world s refugees

The EU’s share of world’s refugees (in %)

The EU's share of world's refugees (in %)

Contrary to a common perception, the EU hosts a small proportion of the world’s refugees. In 2022, it hosted 6.7 million refugees, which was about 19 % of world’s refugees. However, the EU’s share of the world’s refugees had dropped after the mid 1990s, reaching as low as 5.7 % during the so called European ‘migration crisis’ (see Figure 19). The share then remained close to the average of 10 % until the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

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