70.8 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said. (by comparison, 2017 was 68.5 million)
In its annual global trends report, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) described the figure of 70.8 million at the end of 2018 as "conservative", particularly because the number of people who fled Venezuela's devastating crisis is undercounted.
The report lists 41.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 25.9 million refugees, and 3.5 million asylum seekers -- those awaiting a decision on their bid for official refugee protection.
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