The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2026 reported that 82.2 million people were internally displaced across 104 countries by the end of 2025.
The report was released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people forced to leave their homes but who remain within their own country’s borders.
Conflict and violence displaced 68.6 million people, becoming the largest cause of displacement for the first time.
Sudan recorded the world’s largest internal displacement crisis with more than 9.1 million displaced people.
The report noted that 78,000 people remained displaced in Manipur due to Meitei-Kuki violence.