An estimated 1,000 people a day are returning across Iraq's borders having previously moving abroad to escape the violence, Iraqi authorities say.
Most of the returnees are coming from Syria - and very few from Jordan, where better-off refugees tended to go.
An improving security situation - but also the lack of job opportunities for Iraqis in Syria - may account for the move, correspondents say.
However, at least five people died in a bombing in Ramadi on Wednesday. A suicide bomber slammed a vehicle into a courthouse compound, police said.
The attack came as a sudden return to violence in a region which has become markedly more peaceful since Sunni tribesmen joined forces with the US military to tackle al-Qaeda militants last year.
Over 4.4m Iraqis are thought to have been displaced by violence since the US-led invasion of 2003. Iraq's ministry of migration told the reporter about 1,000 people were returning every day.
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