There are 65.3 million people across the world without a safe place to call home.
This equates to one in every 113 people being a refugee, asylum seeker or displaced in their own country.
The United Nations refugee agency annual global report says 2015 was the first time the threshold of more than 60 million displaced people had been crossed.
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The total includes:
* 21.3 million refugees worldwide
* 3.2 million people in industrialised countries awaiting decisions on asylum
* 40.8 million people who are displaced within their own countries.
The report, releaseed on World Refugee Day on Monday, says Syria's 4.9 million refugees, Afghanistan's 2.7 million refugees and Somalia's 1.1 million when added together make up half the world's refugee population.
Columbia, Syria and Iraq had the largest numbers of internally displaced while Yemen was the biggest producer of new internal displacements.
Germany received more asylum requests than any other country (441,900), followed by the US (172,700), Sweden (156,000) and Russia (152,500).
The report says children make up 51 per cent of the world's refugees and there were close to 100,000 who were unaccompanied or separated from their families.
