The number of refugees worldwide is higher than ever before
A sad record on World Refugee Day June 20, 2022: over 100 million people were on the run in the previous year. The number of refugees has more than doubled in the last ten years. Over half of them (53 million) are "internally displaced persons", meaning people on the run within their home country.
It is alarming that the majority of the refugees come from just five countries: Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar make up 68 percent of the world's refugees, according to the United Nations. In Syria, a cruel civil war has been raging for years. Around 13 million Syrians were displaced from their homeland - 6.7 million of them had to leave the country. The Syrian refugees need water, food and medical care most urgently.
