The United Nations (UN) has estimated that 258 million people have left their native countries and are currently residing in other nations, a 49-percent rise since 2000.
In a biennial report released on Monday, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs also said that the number of international refugees marked a small percentage of the world’s population, and on that scale, the number had climbed by just over half a percentage point since 2000 — from 2.8 percent of the world’s population then to 3.4 percent in 2017.
According to the report, the percentage of refugees living in high-income countries also increased from 9.6 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2017.
All 193 UN member states, including the United States, adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in September 2016, which underlines that no one country can manage international migration on its own.
Member states also agreed to implement well-managed…