Description: This 10th edition of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) once again presents record-breaking figures, with a global estimate of 83.4 million people living in internal displacement at the end of 2024 – more than twice the number reported in the first GRID a decade ago.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: The southern state of Rio Grande do Sul experienced above-average rains between the end of April and mid-May 2024, inundating an area the size of the United Kingdom and triggering around 775,000 displacements.340 More than three-quarters took place in the metropolitan area of the state’s capital of Porto Alegre, home to 4.3 million people and located at the intersection of several major rivers.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: The most powerful earthquake to hit mainland Japan since the Great East Japan disaster of 2011 struck Ishikawa prefecture on the Noto peninsula on the first day of 2024.232 Nearly 64,000 internal displacements were recorded countrywide, a conservative estimate based only on the movement of people to evacuation shelters.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: The most intense floods in more than a decade struck the state of Assam in 2024, triggering 2.5 million internal displacements. They accounted for nearly half of the 5.4 million disaster displacements recorded in India during the year, the highest figure in 12 years.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: Japan is a rare example globally in that it registers and follows up on IDPs, allowing to paint a full picture of the duration of disaster displacement. This was further facilitated by the distribution of cards to monitor the inflow of people into evacuation centres.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: Syria’s internally displaced population has been among the world’s largest for more than a decade, and 2024 was no exception. Around 7.4 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of the year, the second highest figure on record for the country and surpassed only by Sudan.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: Most movements were reported from and within southern districts including Bint Jbeil, Sour and Marjaayoun, particularly from mid-September as Israeli airstrikes and relocation directives increased. The IDF then launched a ground offensive in early October, which led to a sharp increase in displacement, particularly in southern governorates.
Published in: IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025. Full report can be downloaded here.
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Description: The number of people internally displaced by conflict and violence reached an all-time high of 73.5 million as of the end of 2024, an increase of 6.5 million in 12 months and 33 million more than a decade ago.
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Description: The rise in conflict in recent years in countries and territories such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan and Ukraine led to an increase in the number of IDPs. They added to the tens of millions living in protracted displacement in countries such as Afghanistan, Colombia, Syria and Yemen. The impacts of disasters on housing and livelihoods also meant that many people could not find durable solutions and were still displaced at the end of the year.
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Description: Around 9.8 million people across 94 countries and territories were living in displacement as result of disasters at the end of 2024. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 5.7 million, 58 per cent of the global total. At the country level, Afghanistan, Chad, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Somalia had the highest figures.
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Description: Disaster displacement affects all countries, regardless of their income level. Around 264.8 million movements were recorded across 210 countries and territories between 2015 and 2024. East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia were the most affected regions. At the country level, Bangladesh, China, India, the Philippines and the US recorded the highest figures over the past decade.
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