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    Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide In 2018, U.N. Report Says

    The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.
    by Ashley Westerman Jun 19, 2019 2 minutes
    Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017.

    A record 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced by war, persecution and other violence worldwide at the end of 2018, according to the latest annual Global Trends report by the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

    The figure represents an increase of over 2 million in the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced peoplenumber in UNHCR history.

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