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UNDP Report on Forced Displacement

December 15 , 2022 702 days 647 0
  • UNDP released a report named “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions”.
  • For the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries.
  • At the end of 2021, there were over 59 million people forcibly displaced within their own countries due to conflict, violence, disasters and climate change.
  • Before the war in Ukraine, 6.5 million people are estimated to have been internally displaced.
  • By 2050, climate change may force more than an estimated 216 million people to move within their own countries.
  • Disaster-related internal displacement is even more widespread, with new displacements recorded in over 130 countries and territories in 2021.
  • Around 30% of professional lives became unemployed and 24% were not able to earn money the same way as before.
  • 48% of the internally displaced households earned less money than before displacement.

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