Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, need more Western help - U.N.

FILE PHOTO: A Venezuelan migrant man walks through a camp run by the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Maicao, Colombia May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

GENEVA (Reuters) - Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world's refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Half of the world's forcibly displaced are children and the 2018 total is the highest in nearly 70 years, the U.N. refugee agency said in its annual flagship report, Global Trends.