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Bangladesh - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2025

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SITUATION AT A GLANCE

1 MILLION Rohingya Refugees in Need in 2024
UN – September 2024

1 MILLION Rohingya Refugees Targeted for Humanitarian Assistance in 2024
UN – March 2024

970,294 Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar
UNHCR – November 2024

36,376 Rohingya Refugees on Bhasan Char Island
UNHCR – November 2024

$852 MILLION Required Funding to Meet Needs of the 2024 Joint Response Plan – Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
UN – March 2024

  • Approximately 23.6 million people across Bangladesh are projected to face Crisis—IPC 3—or worse levels of acute food insecurity between October and December, according to a food security and nutrition assessment published in November 2024.

  • The number of Rohingya refugees in Bhasan Char and Cox’s Bazar refugee camps surpassed 1 million refugees as of September 2024, a nearly 4 percent increase from November 2023, according to UNHCR.

  • UNHCR recorded more than 12,500 cases of dengue fever in Cox’s Bazar between January and October 2024.