Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025
May 17 , 2025
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- This latest report was released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
- Disaster-related internal displacements were at an all-time high across the world, with 45.8 million forced out of their homes in 2024.
- Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed the highest number of internal displacements in 2024.
- Nearly 19.3 million people forced to leave the home due to conflict, violence and disasters.
- Of this, 7.8 million were displaced due to disasters.
- East Asia and Pacific followed with 16.2 million internal displacements, of which 14.8 million were due to disasters.
- This was followed by the Americas, where 14.5 million people were displaced internally in 2024 — 13.1 million for disasters.
- South Asia recorded 9.2 million internal displacements, almost all of which was due to disasters.
- Middle East & North Africa recorded 5.7 million internal displacements. Some 599,000 of this was due to disasters.
- Europe and Central Asia saw the least number of internal displacements in the year at 846,000, of which 358,000 were disaster-related.

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