The United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" announced in a statement that the number of displaced children around the world reached 36.5 million by the end of last year, the highest recorded number since World War II (1939-1945).

The statement said that "conflict, violence, and other crises around the world have caused 36.5 million children to be displaced from their homes by the end of 2021, the highest number recorded since World War II."

It added that this number "includes 13.7 million refugee and asylum-seeking children, and approximately 22.8 million internally displaced children due to conflict and violence."

The statement continued that "these numbers do not include children displaced due to environmental disasters, nor those recently displaced in 2022, including due to the war in Ukraine."

It pointed out that "the increase in the number of displaced children resulted from successive crises, including acute conflicts such as Afghanistan, fragility in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo or Yemen, and related shocks that were exacerbated by the effects of climate change, leading to an increase of more than 2.2 million displaced children during the past year."

The statement revealed that "one third of displaced children live in sub-Saharan Africa, a quarter in Europe and Central Asia, and 13 percent in the Middle East and North Africa."