Supporting refugee self-reliance in East, Horn and Great Lakes of Africa: The role of data Olive NsababeraJedediah (Jed) FixFlorence Nimoh July 10, 2024 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/supporting-refugee-self-reliance-in-east--horn-and-great-lakes-o According to last month’s Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2023, the East, Horn and Great Lakes of Africa region—or EHAGL, which includes Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda—is host to an estimated 5.2 million refugees and asylum-seekers (around 14% of the global total), far higher than the region’s share in global population (5%). The majority of these refugees and asylum seekers originate from Burundi, Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. The region also hosts an estimated 16.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) mainly from Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and South Sudan (around 26% of the global total) and nearly 580,000 refugee returnees.