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. 102 pledges were made by countries and other stakeholders to include forcibly displaced and stateless people in their national data. 55 pledges came directly from Member States while 18 were from UN Country Teams. Out of these 73 pledges made by or on behalf of countries, 29 pledges were from Africa, 20 from the Americas, 8 from Europe, 10 from Asia-Pacific and 6 from the Middle East and North Africa, aiming to be in-line with internationally recommended standards.