![]() ![]() Less than 3% of refugees returned to their country of origin At the same time, Cameroon hosted 380,300 refugees, mainly from the Central African Republic (CAR) and Nigeria. Nigeria hosted 100 at the beginning of 2018 compared to 32,800 by the end of the year. In total, there were 45,100 Cameroonian refugees globally at the end of 2018. The situation in Cameroon was complex as it was both a source country and host country of refugees and asylum-seekers, along with multiple internal displacements in 2018. Other large displaced populations of IDPs, refugees or asylum-seekers at the end of 2018 were from Afghanistan (5.1 million), South Sudan (4.2 million), Somalia (3.7 million), Ethiopia (2.8 million), Sudan (2.7 million), Nigeria (2.5 million), Iraq (2.4 million) and Yemen (2.2 million). A total of 5.4 million Congolese from DRC were also forcibly displaced, of whom 4,517,000 were IDPs and 854,000 were refugees or asylum-seekers. ![]() Colombians were the second largest group, with 8.0 million forcibly displaced, most of them (98 per cent) inside their country at the end of 2018. Most of those forced to flee South Sudan went to Sudan or Uganda, and those displaced from DRC also headed to Uganda.Īt the end of 2018, Syrians still made up the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement, including 6.7 million refugees, 6.2 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and 140,000 asylum-seekers. For example, most Syrians fled to Turkey, where there were half a million new refugee registrations and asylum applications. The vast majority of newly displaced people remained close to home. Most displaced people remained close to home Nigeria also had a high number of newly displaced people with 661,800, of which an estimated 581,800 were displaced within the country’s borders. Of these, 632,700 were newly displaced/registered outside the country, while the remainder were internally displaced. Syrians were the next largest newly displaced population, with 889,400 people during 2018. This increase more than doubled the existing internally displaced population in the country. Some 1.6 million Ethiopians made up the largest newly displaced population during the year, 98 per cent of them within their country. ![]() Many returned to their countries or areas of origin to try to rebuild their lives, including 2.3 million IDPs and nearly 600,000 refugees. This means that on every day of 2018, an average of 37,000 people were newly displaced. During the year, 13.6 million people were newly displaced, including 2.8 million who sought protection abroad (as new asylum-seekers or newly registered refugees) and 10.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs), who were forced to flee but remained in their own countries. We will look into the differences between both areas in detail in the below sections.Large numbers of people were on the move in 2018. Another major difference between these two settlements is that urban areas are highly populated, and rural areas have comparatively less population in comparison to urban ones. Urban means those human settlements where the rate of urbanisation and industrialisation is more in the same way rural means those human settlements, where the rate of urbanisation is slow. human has divided their settlement mainly into two types i.e. Difference Between Urban and Rural Areasīased on the different factors like the density of population, development, amenities, employment opportunities, education, etc. This article will be very helpful for those who are preparing for the UPSC IAS Exam. So, in this article, we will be covering all prospective of rural and urban areas in a very detailed manner. The major difference between these two areas is that in rural areas population density is less whereas in urban areas population density is more.
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