World: 117.8 million people displaced: an open wound on our shared humanity

Countries: World, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: Norwegian Refugee Council Statement by Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on the new global displacement figures: “The number of people who have fled their home because of violence and conflict has nearly tripled over the last 15 years. The 117.8 million people now violently displaced around the globe would constitute the world’s thirteenth largest country by population. Larger than Egypt,