Central African Republic - Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate)

The value for Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate) in Central African Republic was 192,000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 7 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 200,000 in 2003 and a minimum value of 108,000 in 2008.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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Year	Value
2003	200,000
2006	150,000
2007	197,000
2008	108,000
2009	162,000
2010	192,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility