The Global Refugee Crisis

CREATE Lab has mapped the stimulate of refugees to a greater extent than or less the basis for every twelvemonth since 2000. The map uses information from the U.N. Refugee Agency to present where refugees accept come upward from too which countries to a greater extent than or less the globe that they accept fled to.

At commencement glance the animated flowing dots on the Global Refugee Flow map tin plough over notice endure a picayune confusing. As amongst a lot of animated maps it tin plough over notice endure difficult to selection out information from all the noise on the map. As the timeline plays notwithstanding you lot tin plough over notice discovery patterns on the map. For event you lot tin plough over notice run into how neighboring countries nearly oftentimes have the nearly refugees from countries inwards crisis too that western countries unremarkably larn off really lightly.

The countries listed along the bottom of the map are where a high proportion of peoples accept been forced to flee their homes too larn refugees. If you lot choose 1 of these countries the map volition zoom-in on the solid position down too an information window volition opened upward explaining the crisis that led to people leaving the country.


Flight & Expulsion is a to a greater extent than explorable interactive mapped visualization of the same worldwide migration information from the annual UNHCR Refugee Report. This map allows you lot to explore the refugee information for whatever solid position down to run into how they accept responded to crises to a greater extent than or less the world.

If you lot choose a solid position down on the map you lot tin plough over notice thought the release of 'arrivals' too 'departures' for whatever twelvemonth from 1988 to 2008. The countries where a high proportion of citizens accept emigrated to are shown on the map inwards green. The countries where immigrants accept come upward from are shown on the map inwards brown.