"68.3 million people were living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence at the end of 2023, the highest figure since data became available. Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and Yemen host nearly half of the world’s internally displaced people. The figure has increased by 49 per cent in five years, fuelled by escalating and protracted conflict in Ethiopia, DRC, Sudan, and Ukraine. Conflict and violence triggered 20.5 million new internal displacements, or movements, across 45 countries and territories during 2023. Sudan, DRC and Palestine accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total.
There were 7.7 million people living in internal displacement globally as a result of disasters at the end of 2023. Although data gaps on the duration of disaster displacement make this figure conservative, it shows that, like conflict, disasters can keep people displaced for long periods of time. Disasters triggered 26.4 million new internal displacements, or movements, across 148 countries and territories during 2023. This is the third highest figure in the last decade. A third took place in China and Türkiye as a result of severe weather events and high-magnitude earthquakes."
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