World Refugee Day 2016: World's refugees at all-time high level, UNHCR reports

The United Nations has urged collective responsibility as a new report revealed the number of world refugees is at an unprecedented all-time high of 65.3 million by the end of 2015.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) presented the Global Trends report on World Refugee Day Monday, June 20 that revealed more than 65 million of the 7.4 billion global population are now refugees, up from 59.5 million a year earlier.

With the new record, 40.8 million are internally displaced by conflicts while 21.3 million are refugees. Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia are the top three sources of the world's refugees while Colombia, Syria, and Iraq have the largest internally displaced people. Children, many of whom were traveling alone and separated from their parents, make up the 51 percent of these refugees.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi addressed world leaders as he summed up the overwhelming message of the report.

He said, "The message that they have carried is: 'If you don't solve problems, problems will come to you.'"

Grande blamed the worsened state of refugees on what he referred to as "divisive political rhetoric on asylum and migration issues" and the rising xenophobia.

"Instead of burden sharing, we see borders closing, instead of political will there is political paralysis," Grandi added.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country hosts the largest number of refugees for the second consecutive year, also denounced other governments' inaction.

"Governments whose policies aggravate humanitarian crises around the globe remain reluctant to lend their victims a helping hand," he said, as quoted by the Associated Press. "The international community has a political and moral obligation to restore the human dignity of refugees."

On the other hand, the second largest host country Lebanon is ringing the alarms as the refugee influx surpassed the number of its own people.

"Our numbers are very large and today Lebanon cannot handle additional numbers," Lebanese government spokesman Hala El-Helou told Al Jazeera. "Having six million people in such a small territory is already a burden by itself."

As Grandi called on governments to take action, he wondered whether world leaders would rise to the occasion "in a spirit of global solidarity" come Sept. 19 at the UN General Assembly to address the plight of the world's refugees.