The UN Refugee Agency has stated on June 20 that every 113th person on Earth is either a refugee, an internally displaced person or an asylum seeker, which is the highest such proportion since the aftermath of World War II.

Marking the World Refugee Day, the organisation has estimated that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, which is a five million increase in a year.

BBC cited the UN Refugee Agency chief as stating that worrying «climate of xenophobia» has taken hold in Europe as it struggles to cope with the migrant crisis.

Over a half of all refugees came from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and 86% of the refugees were being sheltered in low and middle income countries.

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