Poor nations hosting most refugees globally, UN says

Refugees line at a UN camp in Wau, South Sudan. In a new report, the United Nations says poor countries bordering crisis-prone neighbours are bearing the brunt of hosting a huge number of refugees, as opposed to richer nations in calmer regions. [AFP]

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said yesterday.

Half of the world’s forcibly displaced are children and the 2018 total is the highest in nearly 70 years, the UN refugee agency said in its annual flagship report, Global Trends.