25 years of progress on internal displacement 1998-2023 - Internal Displacement Index 2023

 

Description: In 1998, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement were presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights, offering a framework comprising 30 standards to safeguard the rights of internally displaced people (IDPs). Despite numerous efforts by countries to address internal displacement in the past 25 years, the number of IDPs continues to rise, necessitating a review of progress and renewed collective action. This report highlights policies, legal frameworks, and initiatives developed over the years, showcases improvements for various countries in the IDMC Internal Displacement Index (IDI), and underscores the ongoing challenges in managing internal displacement while providing recommendations for future efforts.

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Internal displacements by conflict and disasters in 2022

Description: 71.1 million people were living in internal displacement worldwide at the end of 2022, a 20 per cent increase in a year and the highest number ever recorded. 60.9 million internal displacements, or movements, were recorded during the year, 60 per cent more than in 2021 and also the highest figure ever. The number of displacements associated with conflict and violence nearly doubled to 28.3 million. The war in Ukraine triggered 16.9 million, the highest figure ever recorded for any country. The La Niña weather phenomenon persisted for a third consecutive year, leading to record levels of flood displacement in countries including Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil. It also fuelled the worst drought on record in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, triggering 2.1 million movements.

Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.
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GRID 2023 Spotlight - The Philippines: overlapping disaster impacts and the importance of monitoring displacement

 

Description: Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire and in East Asia’s typhoon belt, the Philippines is one of the countries most affected by disaster displacement globally.202 Storms tend to account for the majority of the movements, and 2022 – when they triggered 4.6 million – was no exception. The figure represents 85 per cent of the disaster displacements recorded for the country during the year. Many were repeated movements of people who had fled previous disasters.
Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.
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GRID 2023 Spotlight - Burkina Faso: disaggregated data reveals links between displacement and food insecurity

Description: Violence, internal displacement and food insecurity have increased significantly since the start of the conflict in Burkina Faso. The number of violent incidents rose seven-fold between 2018 and 2022, the number of food-insecure people nine-fold and the number of IDPs 30-fold. At the end of the year, around 1.9 million people were living in internal displacement and 2.6 million were experiencing acute food insecurity. Both figures are among the highest recorded for the country.

Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.

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GRID 2023 Spotlight - The Democratic Republic of the Congo: overlapping displacement and food insecurity in the east

Description: The humanitarian situation in DRC deteriorated in 2022 as non-state armed groups (NSAGs) increased their attacks in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. Around 4 million internal displacements were reported across the country as a whole, a 48% increase from 2021. Around 5.7 million people were living in displacement at the end of the year, the third highest figure in the world. DRC is also home to the largest number of acutely food insecure people worldwide, illustrating the overlapping nature of these crises.
Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.

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GRID 2023 Spotlight - Myanmar: escalating conflict leads to unprecedented displacement

Description: In February 2021, a military takeover sparked protests that were violently supressed. The demonstrations, however, quickly evolved into an armed resistance movement that spread across the country: the People’s Defence Force (PDF).181 They continued to grow in 2022, adding a layer of complexity to long-running conflicts between the military and a number of ethnic non-state armed groups.

Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.

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GRID 2023 Spotlight - Madagascar: storms and drought trigger displacement and heighten food insecurity

Description: A combination of poverty, vulnerability and exposure to a wide range of hazards make Madagascar one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.90 Severe storms last year came on top of an ongoing drought that reduced soil absorption capacity and increased the impacts of floods and other disasters, many of which struck informal urban settlements. The combined effects of slow and sudden-onset disasters aggravated food insecurity and led to 291,000 internal displacements, the highest figure ever recorded for the country.

Published in: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 - IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth. Full report can be downloaded here.

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Monthly Water Map - The Sixaola River Basin: A peripheral yet global hotspot for biodiversity and cultural heritage

 

Description: The Sixaola river, serving as a border between the Republics of Costa Rica and Panama, is a cultural and biodiversity hotspot. However, despite its social and environmental richness, the basin is a peripheral and marginal region, a result of its remoteness from the capital cities and decades of limited public investment. The Binational Commission for the Sixaola River Basin, created in 2009 in the framework of the 1992 bilateral Agreement on Cooperation for Border Development, has attempted to address this neglect by promoting a space for participatory multi-sectoral management of the basin.

Published in: Geneva Water Hub website. The full PDF document can be downloaded here.
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Average Annual Displacement (AAD) and Probable Maximum Displacement

 

Description: Average Annual Displacement (AAD) is a compact metric that represents the annualised accumulated effect of small to medium and extreme events and predicts the likely displacement associated with them on a yearly basis. Probable Maximum Displacement metric shows the likelihood of a certain scenario producing an estimated amount of displacements. PMD at 100-year return period (100-yrp) expresses the number of displacements that can be exceeded in a disastrous event occurring on average once every 100 years.
Published in: Flood displacement risk - Assessment for Fiji and Vanuatu in current and future climate scenarios. The full report can be downloaded here.
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Residential population distribution

 

Description: Population figures come from censuses, available at administrative level three or tikina for Fiji, and administrative level at the reference administrative level for Fiji (main islands) and Vanuatu two or province for Vanuatu. Fiji’s most recent census was conducted in 2017 and Vanuatu’s in 2020.5 Fiji’s total population was 984,887 and Vanuatu’s 300,019.
Published in: Flood displacement risk - Assessment for Fiji and Vanuatu in current and future climate scenarios. The full report can be downloaded here.
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