GENEVA (AN) — An unprecedented 79.5 million people, or 1% of the world's population, were forcibly displaced from their homes as of the end of 2019 after escaping wars or persecution, the U.N. refugee agency reported on Thursday.
Some 40%, or up to 34 million of the 79.5 million people uprooted from their homes, were children younger than 18 years of age.
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