The number of forcibly displaced people now stands at over 100 million. Many of the countries who host these people are rising to this challenge, making generous efforts to welcome and support those forced to flee and granting them access to health, education and other national systems. While responses to forced displacement are evolving rapidly towards greater national leadership and ownership, data production does not yet mirror this trend. Refugees and IDPs are often systematically excluded, insufficiently represented or inadequately identified in national surveys and other data. 

The multistakeholder pledge on statistical inclusion led by the Republic of Djibouti, is another stage in this evolution. 99 countries have pledged to include forcibly displaced, stateless people in their national data – 29 pledges from Africa, 25 from the Americas, 11 from Europe, 9 from Asia-Pacific and 5 from the Middle East and North Africa. 50 pledges came from Member states and 36 from international organizations some of whom pledge material or in-kind support of the data collection which aims to be in-line with internationally recommended standards.