For the first time, more than 60 million people cannot safely go home. That is 1 in every 113 people in the world. The number jumped from 59.5 million in 2014 to 65.3 million last year, according to a global trends report released on June 19 by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Washington Post: One in every 113 human beings is forcibly displaced from their home right now
A young Internally-displaced Afghan child walks at a refugee camp in Kabul on May 31, 2016. The number of people internally displaced by war in Afghanistan has doubled since 2012 to 1.2 million, Amnesty International said on May 31, citing government neglect and a lack of international attention.
