Our headline finding is that closing the employment and pay gaps for male and female refugees in these six countries alone could boost their GDP by USD $53 billion—five times the combined annual budget of the U.N. Refugee Agency and International Organization for Migration.
By extrapolating findings from the six-country sample to the top 30 refugee-hosting countries collectively hosting approximately 18 million refugees, we estimate that closing employment and pay gaps for male and female refugees could boost global GDP by at least $53 billion and could generate up to $2.5 trillion. Closing the gaps in the top 30 countries for women refugees alone could contribute to global GDP by at least $5 billion and as much as $1.4 trillion.
