Somalia. Nigeria and Congo all flared. Somalia alone is the source of more than a million refugees. the worlds thirdhighest total. Europe experienced the biggest proportional increase in displaced persons last year. with a staggering 51 percent increase over 2013. While much of that was due to Syrian refugees streaming into Turkey. it also reflected the 219.000 people who entered the continent via the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. And as Russianbacked rebels brought war back to European soil. more than 800.000 people were left internally displaced in Ukraine. About 200.000 Ukrainians applied for asylum in Russia. Worldwide. the number of internally displaced people vastly outstripped the number of refugees. Once people fled their home countries. they had little hope of returning. Just 126.800 refugees went back to their home countries in 2014 out of a global refugee population of 14.4 million. That marked the lowest level of return since 1983.
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