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Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with conflict and violence (number of cases)

The value for Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with conflict and violence (number of cases) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 9,392,010 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10,286,720 in 2017 and a minimum value of 1,945,100 in 2011.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are defined according to the 1998 Guiding Principles (http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/1998/ocha-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement) as 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. "New Displacement" refers to the number of new cases or incidents of displacement recorded over the specified year, rather than the number of people displaced. This is done because people may have been displaced more than once.

Source: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Year	Value
2011	1,945,100
2013	7,352,100
2014	8,682,500
2015	7,277,740
2016	6,735,000
2017	10,286,720
2018	9,949,750
2019	7,693,732
2020	9,392,010

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases)

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 4,104,210 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 5,811,200 in 2012, while its lowest value was 679,140 in 2014.

Source: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Year	Value
2008	2,838,835
2010	3,023,900
2012	5,811,200
2013	1,487,546
2014	679,140
2015	2,379,020
2016	1,592,360
2017	2,412,364
2018	2,757,090
2019	3,506,803
2020	4,104,210

Internally displaced persons, total displaced by conflict and violence (number of people)

The value for Internally displaced persons, total displaced by conflict and violence (number of people) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 37,923,700 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 7 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37,923,700 in 2020 and a minimum value of 22,814,100 in 2013.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are defined according to the 1998 Guiding Principles (http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/1998/ocha-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement) as 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. “People displaced” refers to the number of people living in displacement as of the end of each year, and reflects the stock of people displaced at the end of the previous year, plus inflows of new cases arriving over the year as well as births over the year to those displaced, minus outflows which may include returnees, those who settled elsewhere, those who integrated locally, those who travelled over borders, and deaths.

Source: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Year	Value
2013	22,814,100
2014	24,610,600
2015	26,686,500
2016	26,338,500
2017	27,985,900
2018	30,461,000
2019	35,129,100
2020	37,923,700

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility