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magnitude and speed, the Venezuelan migration is not economic in nature. In general, the

Venezuelan migrant and refugee crisis has many characteristics in common with other historical
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events that led to forced displacement, a conclusion also shared by the World Bank (2018).

Figure 2 shows the cumulative total of refugees or people in refugee-like situations per year

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since the start of different crises, based on United Nations data. A historical comparison with
other refugee crises without taking the duration of each crisis into account found that in terms
of total numbers Venezuela is the source of the third highest number of migrants and refugees.

Figure 2. Total number of refugees and people in refugee-like situations, by place of origin
and year since the crisis began (cumulative)

Source: UNHCR Portal (https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations) and IOM/UNHCR portal for monitoring the Venezuelan situation by R4V
(https://r4v.info/es/situations/platform)

36 World Bank Group. 2018. Migration from Venezuela to Colombia: Short- and Medium-Term Impact and
Response Strategy, World Bank, Colombia 2018,
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30651.
37 The United Nations Refugee Agency. Operational Portal, Refugee Situations, 2019,
https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations.

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