Over 42,000 people fled their homes everyday in 2014, UN report says

A total of 60 million people were refugees in another country or displaced in their own country by the end of the year, according to the report.













An average of 42,500 people a day fled their homes last year, becoming refugees or asylum seekers in foreign countries, or internally displaced within their own countries, says a UN report released on Thursday.



An Italian boat approaches a boat overcrowded with migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean, June 2014.


AP / Italian Navy handout

















Nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2014, versus roughly 51 million the year before, the UN refugee agency said in the report. Over half them were children.



A hostel for internally displaced people in the government-controlled city of Slovyansk, Ukraine, in March.


AP / Efrem Lukatsky

















The global refugee crisis hit its worst levels since the Second World War in 2013, the BBC reported at the time, and the number of has continued to rise since.



People believed to be refugees from Myanmar's persecuted minority in Indonesia in May.


REUTERS/Roni Bintang

















The civil war in Syria, which entered its fifth year in March, is the biggest reason for the rapidly rising numbers of people fleeing their homes, according to the report.



A Syrian refugee just after crossing the border into neighboring Turkey on Wednesday.


Umit Bektas / REUTERS




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