Libya - Internally displaced persons

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 Libya was 39,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 498,000 in 2011 and a minimum value of 29,000 in 2017.

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/)

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Year Value
2011 498,000
2014 341,000
2015 100,000
2016 156,000
2017 29,000
2018 70,000
2019 215,000
2020 39,000

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

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/)

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Year Value
2013 3,000
2019 4,600

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 Libya was 278,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 9 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 500,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 50,000 in 2012.

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/)

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Year Value
2011 154,000
2012 50,000
2013 59,000
2014 400,000
2015 500,000
2016 304,000
2017 197,000
2018 221,000
2019 451,000
2020 278,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility