27m displaced by conflict and natural disasters in 2015

An aid agency has said 27.8m people around the world were internally displaced by conflicts and natural disasters last year, calling it a global crisis.

That’s as many as the combined populations of New York City, London, Paris, and Cairo — or an average of 66,000 people displaced every day in 2015.

A report by the Norwegian Refugee Council said 8.6m of last year’s internally displaced were uprooted by conflict, more than half of them in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.