38.2 million displaced inside their own countries19.5 million refugees – half from Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria 1.8 million people were awaiting claims for asylumEvery day in 42,5000 people become a refugee, are internally displaced, or seek asylum. That's 1 in every 122 people, equivalent to the world's 24th biggest country.

Neighbouring countries take in the most refugees.

Lebanon – 1.2 million | Jordan – 650,000Turkey - 2.1 million | (50% children)

Lebanon has a population of about 4.5 million...

The Zaatari camp in Jordan opened in 2012. It's now home to 80,000 Syrians. If it were a city, it would be Jordan's fourth-biggest.

In 2014 only 126,800 refugees were able to return to their home countries.

The average time a refugee will spend in exile is 17 years.

Refugees want to go home

And, so we act 1956 - more than 37,000 Hungarians accepted

into Canada 1972-1973 - 7,000 Ismaili Muslims from Uganda 1973 - over 7,000 Chilean and other Latin

American refugees were admitted 1978-81 - 60,000 Indochinese refugees from

Vietnam 1970-1990 - 20,000 Soviet Jews 1992 - 5,000 Bosnian Muslims 1999 - 5,000 Kosovars airlifted in 4 months

Today25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of

February, 2016 (0.00625%). Processing 4,511 privately sponsored Syrian refugees.

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