List of largest refugee crises

This is a list of largest refugee crises to occur.

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The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.

Rows highlighted in blue indicate a present event that is occurring.

Event	Refugees estimate	Origin	From	Until	Duration	Ref.
World War II	60.0 million	Europe	1939	1945	6 years	^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Partition of India	10.0–20.0 million	Indian subcontinent	1947	1948	1 year	^[7]^[8]
World War I	7.0–15.0 million	Europe	1914	1918	4 years	^[9]^[10]^[11]
Russian Invasion of Ukraine	9.2 million^{[note 1]}	Ukraine and Russia	2022	Present	2 years, 1 month	^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]
Bangladesh Liberation War	9.0 million	Indian subcontinent	1971	1971	8 months	^[16]
Crisis in Venezuela	7.7 million	Venezuela	2014	Present	10 years	^[17]
Syrian Civil War	6.7 million	Syria	2011	Present	13 years	^[18]
Soviet–Afghan War	6.2 million	Afghanistan	1978	1989	11 years	^[19]
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict	5.6 million	Palestine (region)	1947	Present	77 years	^[20]
Yemeni Civil War	4.5 million	Yemen	2015	Present	9 years	^[21]
Vietnam War	3.0 million	Mainland Southeast Asia	1975	2000	25 years	^[22]
War in Afghanistan	2.6–2.7 million	Afghanistan	2001	2021	20 years	^[23]^[24]
Yugoslav Wars	2.4 million	Yugoslavia	1991	2001	10 years	^[25]
Korean War	1.0–5.0 million	Korea	1950	1953	3 years	^[26]^[27]
Iraq War	2.2 million	Iraq	2003	2012	9 years	^[28]
Rwandan Genocide	2.1 million	Rwanda	1994	1996	2 years	^[29]
War in Sudan	2.0 million	Sudan	2023	Present	1 year	^[30]
Iraqi Uprisings	1.8 million	Iraq	1991	1991	8 months	^[22]
Mozambican Civil War	1.7 million	Mozambique	1977	1992	15 years	^[22]
South Sudanese Civil War	1.5 million	South Sudan	2011	2020	9 years	^[31]
Rohingya Genocide	1.3 million	Myanmar	2016	Present	8 years	^[32]
Algerian War	1.0 million	Algeria	1954	1962	8 years	^[22]
Irish Great Famine	1.0 million	Ireland	1845	1849	4 years	^[33]
First Libyan Civil War	1.0 million	Libya	2011	2011	8 months	^[34]
Somali Civil War	1.0 million	Somalia	1991	Present	33 years	^[35]

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