That is more than double the number from just six years ago, IDMC reports
\n London
\nRaging conflicts, disasters and worsening climate change displaced tens of millions of people within their own countries last year, a new record, monitors said Tuesday, AFP reported.
\nAn unprecedented 83.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) were registered in 2024 \u2014 equivalent to the entire population of Germany \u2014 amid mass displacement from conflicts in places like Sudan and Gaza, as well as floods and giant cyclones.
\nThat is more than double the number from just six years ago, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in their annual joint report on internal displacement.
\n\u201cInternal displacement is where conflict, poverty and climate collide, hitting the most vulnerable the hardest,\u201d IDMC chief Alexandra Bilak said in a statement.
\nMost displaced by conflict
\nThe monitors highlighted that nearly 90 percent of the world\u2019s IDPs, or 73.5 million people, were displaced by conflict and violence \u2014 an 80-percent increase since 2018.
\nSome 10 countries each counted more than three million IDPs from conflict and violence at the end of 2024, with civil war-ravaged Sudan alone home to a staggering 11.6 million IDPs \u2014 the most ever recorded in a single country, the report showed.
\nSome two million people, nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip, was also displaced at the end of last year, even before fresh mass displacements since Israel ended a two-month ceasefire on March 18, ramping up its bombardment of the Palestinian territory.
\nWorldwide, close to 10 million people were displaced within their countries at the end of last year, after being forced to flee by disasters \u2014 more than double the number from five years ago, the monitors said.
\nA full 65.8 million new internal displacements were meanwhile reported in 2024, with some people forced to flee multiple times during the year, Tuesday\u2019s report showed.
\nConflict was responsible for 20.1 million of those fresh displacements, while a record 45.8 million people fled their homes to escape disasters.
\n\u2018Stain on humanity\u2019
\nFaced with several major hurricanes like Helene and Milton, which prompted mass evacuations, the United States alone accounted for 11 million disaster-related displacements \u2014 nearly a quarter of the global total, the report said.
\nWeather-related events, many intensified by climate change, triggered 99.5 per cent of all of last year\u2019s disaster displacements.
\nThe number of countries reporting both conflict and disaster displacement had meanwhile tripled in 15 years, with more than three-quarters of people internally displaced by conflict living in countries that are very vulnerable to climate change.
\nOften, the drivers and impacts of displacement \u201care intertwined, making crises more complex and prolonging the plight of those displaced\u201d, the report said.
\nThe stark numbers come as humanitarian organisations worldwide have been reeling since US President Donald Trump returned to office in January, immediately freezing most US foreign aid funding.
\nMany of the sweeping cuts are being felt by IDPs, who typically garner less attention than refugees, who have fled to other countries.
\n\u201cThis year\u2019s figures must act as a wake-up call for global solidarity,\u201d NRC chief Jan Egeland insisted in the statement.
\n\u201cEvery time humanitarian funding gets cut, another displaced person loses access to food, medicine, safety and hope,\u201d he warned.
\nThe lack of progress towards reining in displacement globally, he said, \u201cis both a policy failure and a moral stain on humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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