The 2024 edition of the UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends Report focuses on the analysis of changes and trends in forced displacement from January to December 2024. The number of people forced to flee persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order rose in 2024, reaching a record 123.2 million. Against this backdrop and detrimental funding cuts, the report emphasizes the importance of reliable and timely data to underpin humanitarian actions. “In the current context, the ability to maintain critical datasets is at risk, with potentially severe negative impacts on the efficacy of responses to crises worldwide. Growing weaknesses in the production of these datasets will reduce the accessibility, accuracy, comparability, reliability and timeliness of key statistics that are derived from them”.