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While displacement is not a new phenomenon, the scale of the current crisis is unprecedented. Right now, there are more than 82 million people in the world who have been forcibly displaced from their homes – the highest figure recorded by the United Nations since the Second World War. Most people are displaced within their country of origin or remain close to it. 

Among this growing displaced population are more than 26 million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18, and 48 million internally displaced persons, who fled to other areas of their own countries.