联合国称，2018年底有7080万人流离失所

More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said on Wednesday.

联合国周三称，去年有超过7000万人被统计为流离失所，这一记录低估了难民和寻求庇护者的真实人数。

(AFP)

In its annual global trends report, the United Nations refugee agency described the figure of 70.8 million at the end of 2018 as “conservative,” particularly because the number of people who fled Venezuela’s devastating crisis is undercounted.

联合国难民署在其年度全球趋势报告中称，2018年底7080万人的数字是“保守的”，尤其是因为逃离委内瑞拉毁灭性危机的人数被低估了。

At the end of 2017, by comparison, 68.5 million people were counted as being forcibly displaced by violence or persecution.

相比之下，2017年底有6850万人因暴力或迫害被迫流离失所。

The UNHCR attributed the increase partly to surging displacement in Ethiopia caused by inter-ethnic conflict and in Venezuela, where thousands are fleeing every day amid an economic collapse that has triggered shortages of basic food and medicine.

联合国难民署认为，难民人数增加的部分原因是埃塞俄比亚和委内瑞拉因种族间冲突而造成的流离失所人数激增。委内瑞拉每天都有数千人在经济崩溃的情况下逃离家园，经济崩溃导致基本食品和药品短缺。