Global Report on Internal Displacement, 2023

In May 2023, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has released a report titled-The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2023 (GRID-2023)

• The report cites that the number of people displaced by disasters rose by 40% in 2022 rather than 2021.

Key Findings

• 71.1 million people were living in internal displacement worldwide at the end of 2022.
  1. 20 per cent increase in a year and the highest number ever recorded.
• 60.9 million internal displacements, or movements, were recorded during the year.

1. 1. 60 per cent more than in 2021 and also the highest figure ever.

• The number of displacements associated with conflict and violence nearly doubled to 28.3 million.

1. 1. The war in Ukraine triggered 16.9 million, the highest figure ever recorded for any country.

• The La Niña weather phenomenon persisted for a third consecutive year, leading to record levels of flood displacement in countries including Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil.
• It also fuelled the worst drought on record in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, triggering 2.1 million movements.
• 98% of disaster displacements in 2022 were triggered by weather-related events; floods and storms caused 6 out of 10 disaster displacements
• Pakistan had the highest number of disaster displacements in 2022, followed by China and Afghanistan, while India ranked fourth (with 2.5 million disaster displacements).