1. Palestine
Number of refugees: 5.2 million
UNHCR does not declare Palestine as the top source of refugees in its report because Palestinian refugees are not registered under its mandate. They are separately governed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The UNHCR does, however, include the figure of 5.2 million in its total estimate of 21.3 million refugees worldwide and acknowledges that this amount of people are registered by UNRWA. Therefore, we have placed Palestine in number one on our list of 8 countries that produce the most refugees in the world.
Refugees have been originating from Palestine ever since the 1948 Palestine war took place after the UN proposed to partition the land known as the British Mandate of Palestine. At that time, a little over 800,000 people were recognized as refugees but since conflicts in the country have still not been resolved, the number of displaced people have continued to increase exponentially resulting in the huge number we see today.
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