Aggressive anti-immigration policies and rhetoric from President Donald Trump and other right-wing world leaders has contributed greatly to the skyrocketing number of refugees around the world, the United Nation’s refugee agency said Wednesday.

Marking a distressing record, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed in its annual Global Trends report that the number of refugees worldwide is now the highest it’s ever been since the UN began keeping records, with more than 70 million people seeking refuge after being forced from their homes.

At least one in 108 people around the world were displaced in 2018, including both those who had been refugees previously and those who were forced to leave their homes last year due to issues including war, violence, food shortages, and the effects of the climate crisis.

Half of the world’s refugees are children, the UN found.

The European Union director for Human Rights Watch, Lotte Leicht, called the findings “devastating.”

The UN stressed that the 70.8 million people it determined were refugees in 2018 represented a conservative estimate, as the number of people displaced by Venezuela’s humanitarian and economic crisis is not known.

The agency also noted that the number of refugees grew significantly in 2018 from the previous year, and claimed the growth likely stemmed from Venezuela’s crisis—which the U.S. contributed to through years of economic sanctions.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration policies have worsened conditions for people seeking refuge all over the world, the UN’s commissioner for refugees, Fillippo Grandi, told The Guardian.