There are now more people displaced worldwide than there were during World War II.
This is according to a new report the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees released on World Refugee Day. As of the end of 2013, 51.2 million people have been displaced from their homes, including 16.7 million refugees, more than 33 million internally displaced people and around 1.2 million asylum seekers.
The 51.2 million displaced people in 2013 also represent the largest figure on record — or since UNHCR started collecting these statistics in 1989. To emphasize the scale of this displacement, UNHCR noted that if all these people were from just one country, then they would make up the 26th largest in the world.