Geneva (AFP) – The United Nations said Monday it will try to resettle a record 170,000 refugees urgently in need of a new home next year as it grapples with an unprecedented displacement crisis.

The projected resettlement figure from the UN refugee agency represents an increase of nearly 30,000 people compared with this year.

But it is still less than 15 percent of the 1.19 million refugees worldwide who will be “in need of resettlement” in 2017, the UNHCR acknowledged in a report released Monday.

Image: Portrait of a man inside the “27 February” Saharawi refugee camp near Tindouf, Algeria. UN Photo/Martine Perret.