More than 913 thousand Refugees and IDPs live in the Kurdistan Region

According to the latest data attained by Kurdistan Regional Government Department of Media and Information, by the end of 2022, more than 913 thousand refugees and IDPs are living in the Kurdistan Region.

On Monday, January 23, 2023. The Kurdistan Regional Government Department of Media and Information has released the latest statistics of the Immigration and Displacement Directorate of the Ministry of Interior, about 665 thousand of IDPs and more than 248 thousand of refugees settled in Kurdistan in 2022.

The 2022’s statistics show that a total of 664,798 internally displaced persons lived in the Kurdistan Region. The number of IDPs staying in the camps were 174,706 people, from which only 102 individuals had returned to their places of origin. Furthermore, the number of new IDPs or those who returned to the camps were 230 persons and the number of people who settled outside of the camps were 490,092 individuals.

In the last year, the Kurdistan Region received 248,434 refugees in total. From this number, 93,966 people lived in the camps, and 154,468 refugees stayed outside of the camps.

Moreover, 376 refugees returned to their countries of origin, while 482 new refugees arrived or reentered to the camps.