In pics: 70% of world's refugees hail from 10 countries
Authored By Wion Web Desk
Published: Aug 06, 2018, 23:02 IST | Updated: Aug 06, 2018, 23:02 IST
By the end of 2017, the number was nearly three million higher than the previous year
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Rohingya refugees in pain
File photo of Rohingya refugees.
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Refugees from Myanmar
Refugees from Myanmar more than doubled last year to 1.2 million, as a brutal army crackdown forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to pour across the border into Bangladesh.
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Palestinians still living as refugees
Report also highlighted large-scale displacements in Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and DR Congo among others.And as Israel marks 70 years of independence, there are some 5.4 million Palestinians still living as refugees, it said.
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Pathetic condition
Despite the focus on migrant numbers arriving in Europe and the United States, a full 85 per cent of refugees are living in low- and middle-income countries like Lebanon, Pakistan and Uganda, Grandi said.
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Turkish refugees
Turkey was hosting by far the largest number of refugees, with 3.5 million registered there by the end of 2017, most of them Syrians.
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Syrian Refugees
File photo of Syrian refugees.
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Syria's seven-year conflict
Syria's seven-year conflict alone had, by the end of last year, pushed more than 6.3 million people out of the country, accounting for nearly one-third of the global refugee population.Another 6.2 million Syrians are internally displaced.
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Afghan Refugees
The second largest refugee-producing country in 2017 was Afghanistan, whose refugee population grew by five per cent during the year to 2.6 million people.The increase was due mainly to births and more Afghans being granted asylum in Germany, UNHCR said.
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