2026-04-04 · percent of global refugee-hosting capacity
Refugees are still under one percent of humanity
Visibility in headlines exceeds population share.
Policy grids compress billions of people into equal squares — the shock is in the share, not the cell. This grid divides refugee hosting (population-weighted) (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Refugees & asylum seekers, Asia & Pacific, and 2 more groups — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of global refugee-hosting capacity (0.1% of refugee hosting (population-weighted)) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Refugees by destination (per 1,000) put Asia & Pacific at 47.3% of refugee hosting (population-weighted) and Africa at 25.5% — about 100 percent of global refugee-hosting capacity in this edition's rounding.
Refugees per 1,000 residents in host countries (UNHCR via OWID).
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-04-04-pol-refugee-global-under-one-pct