In 2021, 5,895 people died fleeing their countries, surpassing pre-pandemic figures and making 2021 the deadliest year on record for migrants since 2017.As of, more than 6 million people in Ukraine had moved to other countries to escape the conflict, with at least 8 million people displaced inside the country. ![]() Countries in Northern Africa and Western Asia were the largest regional source of refugees (8.4 million), followed by countries in sub-Saharan Africa (6.7 million), and Latin America and the Caribbean (4.5 million).For every 100,000 people worldwide, 311 are refugees outside their country of origin, up 44 per cent from 216 per 100,000 people in 2015. By mid-2021, the number of people forced to flee their countries had grown to a record high 24.5 million. ![]() A decline in the labour share of income from 2014 to 2019 ‐ from 54.1 per cent to 52.6 per cent ‐ represents upward pressure on inequality.One third of persons with disabilities experience discrimination. In some countries, women are more than twice as likely as men to experience discrimination on the grounds of sex.Roughly one in five people have experienced discrimination on at least one of the grounds prohibited under international human rights law, such as ethnicity, age, sex, disability, religion and sexual orientation.Income inequality within countries will also have increased around 1 per cent, on average, in emerging market and developing countries, halting the steady decline seen in these countries since the start of the millennium.Before the pandemic, inequality was expected to have fallen by 2.6 per cent over the same period. Projections suggest that between-country inequality rose by 1.2 per cent between 20, the first such increase in a generation. ![]() Among the 18 countries which have data for 2020, two thirds saw rates of relative low income increase in 2020. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |