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Internally displaced person
Person forced to leave their home who remains within their country / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders.[1] They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.[2]
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Total population | |
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70.5 million (2022) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Europe | 7.2 million |
East and Horn of Africa, and African Great Lakes | 2.6 million |
Southern Africa | 2.6 million |
Asia and the Pacific | 1.4 million |
West and Central Africa | 1.3 million |
Middle East and North Africa | 0.4 million |
Americas | 0.2 million |
In 2022, it was estimated there were 70.5 million IDPs worldwide.[3] The first year for which global statistics on IDPs are available was in 1989. As of 3 May 2022,[update] the countries with the largest IDP populations were Ukraine (8 million),[4][5][6][7] Syria (7.6 million), Ethiopia (5.5 million),[8] the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5.2 million), Colombia (4.9 million),[9] Yemen (4.3 million),[10] Afghanistan (3.8 million),[11] Iraq (3.6 million), Sudan (2.2 million), South Sudan (1.9 million), Pakistan (1.4 million), Nigeria (1.2 million) and Somalia (1.1 million).[12] More than 85% of Palestinians in Gaza (1.9 million) were internally displaced as of January 2024.[13]
The United Nations and the UNHCR support monitoring and analysis of worldwide IDPs through the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.[1][14]