The number of people displaced by conflict worldwide stands at 65 million, according to a new World Bank report.<br /><br /> The study, produced together with the UN refugee agency said ten conflicts are responsible for the majority of forced displacement of people.<br /><br /> It pointed to conflicts in Afghanistan, Burundi, the Caucasus, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and the former Yugoslavia.<br /><br /> That 65 million figure is equivalent to the population of the United Kingdom, or one percent of the world’s population.<br /><br /> Xavier Devictor, an expert on refugees and migration at the World Bank, said that this poses a development challenge as many refugees and displaced people live in poverty for years on end.<br /><br /> “Being a refugee for 2 or 3 years poses a certain number of problems. Being a refugee for 30 years raises other in terms of education for children, in terms of dependence or the ability to live life normally again,” he told euronews in an interview.<br /><br /> “We see increasingly that they are people who live in places where it is almost impossible to get a job. Either because it is legally impossible owing to their refugee status. Or simply because they live in countries or areas of these countries it is very difficult to find jobs.”<br /><br /> The report found three key priorities for host nations which receive large numbers of refugees.<br /><br /> They include helping to prepare those countries before those arrivals, boosting support for health and education; and helping to create jobs.<br />
