Russia - Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate)

The value for Internally displaced persons (number, high estimate) in Russia was 78,000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 500,000 in 2001 and a minimum value of 78,000 in 2010.

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
2001 500,000
2002 380,000
2003 366,000
2004 360,000
2005 265,000
2006 190,000
2007 159,000
2008 98,000
2009 80,000
2010 78,000

Internally displaced persons (number, low estimate)

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
2006 82,000
2007 19,000
2008 82,000
2010 6,500

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility