World Refugee Day - How many people asked asylum in Georgia?

Today the world marks World Refugee Day.

Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror,” the United Nations (UN) reports.

Currently there are about 65 million forcibly displaced persons in the world. 20 million of them are refugees.

Official data reads that 947 people asked for asylum in Georgia in 2016.

Meanwhile, 1,513 people have refugee and humanitarian status in the country.

Currently there are about 280,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Georgia; about six percent of the country’s total population.

All of Georgia’s IDPs are either from Abkhazia or Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) – two regions of Georgia that are currently occupied by Russia.