The 2020 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) has been published. It estimates a record high total of 50.8 million people displaced within their own countries. From IDMC's press release:"The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) estimates that 45.7 million people are living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence in 61 countries, the majority in Syria, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Yemen and Afghanistan. Another 5.1 million in 95 countries are displaced because of disasters. This includes 1.2 million people displaced by years of drought and floods in Afghanistan, more than 500,000 by monsoon rains in India and 33,000 whose lives are still uprooted a decade after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. ...Contributing to these record figures, 33.4 million new displacements were recorded in 2019, the highest annual figure since 2012."
For more information, see this Q&A with the IDMC director and New Humanitarian article.
Visit the companion site for highlights, media information and videos. The report can be downloaded in full, by section or by chapter. Background papers and country figures are also available via the same download link. Previous iterations of the report can be accessed here.
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