Myanmar - 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 Myanmar was 70,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 166,000 in 2012 and a minimum value of 6,200 in 2014.

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
2009 75,000
2010 73,000
2011 50,000
2012 166,000
2013 54,000
2014 6,200
2015 16,000
2016 35,000
2017 57,000
2018 42,000
2019 80,000
2020 70,000

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

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases) in Myanmar was 50,000 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 2,250,000 in 2008, while its lowest value was 2,500 in 2009.

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
2008 2,250,000
2009 2,500
2010 106,000
2011 13,000
2012 74,000
2013 223,000
2014 81,000
2015 1,618,000
2016 509,000
2017 351,000
2018 298,000
2019 270,000
2020 50,000

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 Myanmar was 505,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 645,000 in 2014 and a minimum value of 401,000 in 2018.

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
2009 470,000
2010 446,000
2011 450,000
2012 450,000
2013 641,000
2014 645,000
2015 644,000
2016 644,000
2017 635,000
2018 401,000
2019 457,000
2020 505,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility