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A look at countries generating the most refugees

By John Heilprin
Published June 20, 2014 6:54pm ET
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A look at countries generating the most refugees
A woman washes clothing at a camp for internally displaced Afghans on World Refugee Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June 20, 2014. The plight of millions of refugees everywhere is marked Friday on World Refugee Day. The United Nations refugee agency says that at the end of last year, more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide, the highest figure of displaced since World War II. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) | Rahmat Gul

GENEVA (AP) — The countries generating the most refugees are all conflict zones. The three biggest refugee populations are from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, which together account for more than half of all the world’s refugees, according to an annual report by the Geneva-based U.N. refugee agency. By descending order, the top 7 are:

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