A new report says the number of internally displaced people worldwide has increased for the third straight year. The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center found a 14 percent increase in those forced to flee their homes inside their own countries. Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council unveiled the findings.

Jan Egeland: “2014, we have documented, was the worst year, certainly in my 35 years as a humanitarian worker. Thirty-eight million people are now the accumulated total of people internally displaced within their countries’ border.”

Syria accounted for the most displaced, 7.6 million internally and another four million refugees outside the country.