It is awful to leave your country … family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there – you have to leave everything.
This map shows the origins of refugees in the world in 2018. The origins are the territories these people came from.
The highest number of refugees and IDP in 2018 are still from Syria (>6 Million) , followed by Afghanistan (>2 Mio.), South Sudan (>2 Mio.), Myanmar (>1 Mio.) and Somalia (just under 1 million).
The difference between refugees and internally displaced persons is that the former are outside their territory of origin, whilst the latter have stayed within national borders. The movement of these people is based on their “fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion” (UNHCR, 1951).
