Remarkableriots Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/record-70-8-million-people-displaced-at-end-of-2018-un/ar-AAD6jHS?ocid=AMZN Quote More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said Wednesday. In its annual global trends report, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) described the figure of 70.8 million at the end of 2018 as "conservative", particularly because the number of people who fled Venezuela's devastating crisis is undercounted. At the end of 2017, by comparison, 68.5 million people were counted as being forcibly displaced by violence or persecution. The UNHCR attributed the increase partly to surging displacement in Ethiopia caused by inter-ethnic conflict, and in Venezuela, where thousands are fleeing every day amid an economic collapse that has triggered shortages of basic food and medicine. An estimated 3.3 million people have left Venezuela since the start of 2016, according to the UN. UNHCR head Filippo Grandi told reporters in Geneva the figure of 70.8 million only includes Venezuelans who had officially applied for asylum -- roughly half a million people. Overall, the number of displaced people in the world has doubled over the last 20 years and now exceeds the population of Thailand. The trend, Grandi said, continues to go in "the wrong direction". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 As climate change advances, this number will only increase exponentially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 4 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: As climate change advances, this number will only increase exponentially. in the next 100 years the number could reach ten billion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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