Record 60 million refugees last year, says UN

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‘Out of control’ violence has led to the highest-ever increase of refugees in a single year, says the UN. If 2014’s refugees were grouped together as a nation, it would be the world’s 24th largest.

Record 60 million refugees last year, says UN
18.06.2015

Conflicts and violence forced a record 59.5 million people from their homes in 2014, with Syria overtaking Afghanistan to become the world´s largest source of refugees, said the United Nations.

Last year saw 8.3 million more refugees and internally-displaced people in the world than in 2013, the highest-ever increase in a single year, according to the in its report ‘World at War' on Thursday.

If the 59.5 million refugees were lumped together as a nation, it would be the world's 24th largest, and is up from 37.5 million a decade ago.

"We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement, as well as the response required, is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said ahead of the launch of the UNHCR's annual report.