UN: Highest Level of Refugees Recorded
theguardian.com
The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the BBC reports quoting the UN refugee agency.
It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year.
In its annual report marking World Refugee Day, the UN said it was the first time ever that the number of refugees worldwide passed the 60m mark. Over half of all of them came from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
According to the UN report, 86% of the refugees are being sheltered in low and middle income countries.
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