"Worldwide Displacement Crisis Reaches Unprecedented Levels"
The number of children forcibly displaced from their homes reached a record 43.3 million by the end of 2022, with 25.8 million internally displaced by conflict and violence, according to UNICEF. The figure has doubled in the last decade, despite efforts to integrate and protect displaced children. The ongoing war in Ukraine forced more than 2 million Ukrainian children to flee the country and displaced over 1 million children inside Ukraine. Extreme weather events around the world led to another 12 million displacements of children over the course of 2022. The worldwide number of refugee and asylum-seeking children also hit a new high of 17.5 million by the end of last year.