Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Country: Burundi, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, World, Yemen
IDPs high on the agenda
This quarter, IDMC launched its flagship report the Global Overview:
People internally displaced by conflict and violence. The report revealed that, as of the end of 2014, a record-breaking 38 million people were displaced within their own country by conflict or violence.
This is equivalent to the total populations of London, New York and Beijing combined. With internal displacement figures reaching a record high for the third year in a row, 11 million people were newly displaced by violent events in 2014 alone. Never in the last 10 years of IDMC’s global reporting have we reported such a high estimate for the number of people newly displaced in one year