Less than 5 percent of refugees needing new homes resettled in 2018 - U.N.

FILE PHOTO: Syrian refugees sit and listen during a news conference by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, February 12, 2018. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - Less than five per cent of refugees in need of resettlement in Western countries found new homes last year, the United Nations said, as the United States scaled back its acceptance of displaced people under President Donald Trump.

The United States took in 17,113 resettled refugees in 2018, leading 27 countries who resettled a total of 55,692 refugees under programmes run by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the UNHCR said on Tuesday.