The Economic Consequences of Forcibly Displaced People

According to UNACR numbers, at the end of 2021, 89.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, war, violence or human rights violations. Most of those 534 million of them are internally displaced people. They are just over 27 million who are refugees who fled the country, but haven't applied for asylum. And then there's 4.6 million, very small number out of the 89.3 that we started with that are asylum seekers. So 0.01% of the world's displaced people ever applied for asylum in the UK. Since 2015, the UK has welcomed 20,000 Syrian refugees. We think it's been pretty unpleasant under