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Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024
May 21 , 2024
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- The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024 (GRID-2024) was released by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
- In 2023, the number of internally displaced people increased to 75.9 million, from 71.1 million in the preceding year.
- Internal displacement is the number of forced movements of people within the borders of their country recorded during (a) year.
- During 2022-2023, conflicts and violence causing more displacements, particularly in the last two years.
- 68.3 million people were living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence at the end of 2023.
- Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and Yemen host nearly half of the world’s internally displaced people.
- This is a 49 per cent increase over the 2022 figure.
- The disaster-induced internal displacement population was 7.7 million by the end of 2023; one-fourth of it was caused by earthquakes.
- Internal displacement due to weather-related disasters came down by a third in 2023, in comparison to 2022.
- Overall, 56 per cent of all internal displacement in 2023 was caused by disasters, while the rest by conflict and violence.
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