In the world: 26,600,000 refugees
- 55 million internally displaced persons (IDPs)
- OVER 40 per cent of the world's refugees are children.
- 1 in 3 children living outside their countries of birth are child refugees.
In Chicago
While there are no readily available statistics about refugees in Chicago, these figures help contextualize the figures of refugees in Illinois.
In 2018, 1.8 million immigrants (foreign-born individuals) comprised 14 percent of the population.
One in seven Illinois residents is an immigrant, while another one in seven residents is a native-born U.S. citizen with at least one immigrant parent.
400,000 undocumented immigrants comprised 22 percent of the immigrant population and 3 percent of the total state population in 2016.
