UN: Record 65m people displaced worldwide

Persecution and conflict in Syria and Afghanistan, and elsewhere, raised the number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3m in 2015, says the UN refugee agency.

That’s an almost 10% increase on 2014, which had the highest number of refugees since the Second World War, with 60m displaced people.

Last year, Europe saw the arrival of large numbers of migrants, the UN refugee agency said in unveiling its annual ‘Global Trends Report’.