The global population of people who have been displaced by persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations has gotten so large that it is not possible to resettle more than a relatively small fraction of them.
According to the UNHCR's Global Trends for Displacement in 2018, as of the end of 2018, there were 70.8 million displaced people worldwide. This included 25.9 million refugees — about half of whom were under the age of 18 — and 3.5 million people awaiting decisions on asylum applications.
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