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Credit: Reuters/Osman Orsal By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA | Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:03pm EDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of people forced to flee their homes to escape war or abuse has risen to its highest for 15 years, with four out of five refugees in developing countries, the United Nations said on Monday. In all, there were 43.7 million displaced people worldwide at the end of 2010, up from 43.3 million a year before, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. They include 15.4 million refugees who fled across borders -- 80 percent of them to nearby developing countries -- and 27.5 million uprooted within their own homelands, it said in an annual report. Another 850,000 are asylum seekers who lodged claims. "Fear about supposed floods of refugees in industrialized countries are being vastly overblown or mistakenly conflated with issues of migration," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement. "Meanwhile it's poorer countries that are left having to pick up the burden," added Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who heads the Geneva-based agency. The world's poorest countries host huge refugee populations, both in absolute terms and in relation to their economic size, according to its report, "Global Trends 2010." Slightly more than half of all refugees are children under 18. Pakistan, Iran and Syria host the most refugees, with 1.9 million, 1.1 million and 1 million respectively, it says. Afghans form the largest group, 3 million refugees, including many who left their homeland years ago, followed by Iraqis, Somalis and Congolese, whose countries are also mired in protracted conflicts. "UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION" "The causes of displacement are not going away. So far this year we have seen conflict in North Africa, Ivory Coast, Syria, Sudan and other places around the world that have produced people fleeing dangerous situations," Alexander Aleinikoff, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, told a news briefing. But there is an "uneven distribution" of the world's displaced, he said. "Sometimes it seems the loudest objections come from countries that don't shoulder the biggest burden." Thousands of people fleeing upheavals in North Africa have been heading to Italy on rickety boats in recent months, creating an immigration crisis in Lampedusa, an Italian island situated half way between Tunisia and Sicily. Italy passed Greece as the main point of entry into the European Union (EU) for illegal border migrants in the first quarter of this year, officials said last week. All asylum claims should be assessed in a fair manner, according to Aleinikoff, a former law professor and senior official in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "The numbers we are seeing coming into Europe are not the numbers that can't be handled in a fair process," he said. Asked about anti-refugee sentiment in some parts of Europe, he replied: "I think that difficult economic times sometimes breed unfortunate populist politics, and cultural differences and religious differences may account for some of that as well." In Europe, there were 1.6 million refugees at the end of 2010, down some 40,700 from a year before, mainly due to registration and verification conducted in the Balkans, according to UNHCR. The agency was founded 60 years ago to help 2.1 million refugees in Europe after World War Two. Asia is home to some 4 million refugees, followed by 2.1 million in Africa, while there are nearly 7 million in the Middle East and North Africa and 800,000 in the Americas. Some 100,000 refugees who could not return home or stay in their first countries of asylum were resettled last year in 22 countries, more than 70,000 of them in the United States. "Overall there is a huge need for solutions...to provide safety and assistance and to draw attention to what many of us take for granted, a place to call home," Aleinikoff said. World United Nations Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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