43.3 million children displaced globally in 2022-UNICEF

About 43.3 million children had been displaced globally as a consequence of conflict and violence as of the end of 2022, UNICEF Data has revealed.
This number includes some 17.5 million child refugees and asylum seekers (14.2 million refugees under UNHCR mandate and other children in need of international protection[1], 1.8 million Palestine children registered as refugees with UNRWA[2]) and around 1.5 million asylum-seeking children) and an estimated 25.8 million children displaced within their own country by violence and conflict. On top of those numbers come another 3.8 million more children living in internal displacement as consequence of natural disasters.
Between 2010 and 2022, the global number of forcibly displaced child refugees and asylum seekers more than doubled from around 20.6 million to the current number of 43.3 million. By comparison, during the same period the total number of non-refugee child migrants rose by only 10 per cent. According to UNHCR, over 1.9 million children were born as refugees from 2018 to 2022.
Children are dramatically over-represented among the world’s refugees. Children make up less than one third of the global population, but more than 41 per cent among the world’s refugees in 2022. Among the international migrants (or foreign born population), in 2020, nearly 1 in 3 children were refugees; for adults, the proportion was less than 1 in 20.

Footnotes
[1] The category “Other people in need of international protection” (OIP) refers to “people who are outside their country or territory of origin, typically because they have been forcibly displaced across international borders, who have not been reported under other categories (asylum-seekers, refugees, people in refugee-like situations) but who likely need international protection, including protection against forced return, as well as access to basic services on a temporary or longer-term basis” (Source: UNHCR 2023, Global Trends 2022 (p. 4).

[2] In total, 5.9 million Palestine refugees are registered in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank) with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). These refugees are outside