Current Context: Recently, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2025), providing updated figures on people forced to flee within their own countries.
About Internal Displacement:
- Definition: When people are compelled to leave their homes due to conflict, violence, or disasters, yet remain within national borders.
- Terminology:
- IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons): Individuals experiencing internal displacement.
- Excluded: Those who cross international borders (refugees).
Relevant Data :
- Total IDPs (end-2024):4 million globally
- Conflict & violence: 73.5 million
- Disasters: 9.8 million
- Disaster Displacements: 25 percent occurred in the United States.
- India’s Figures (2024):
- Conflict-related: 1,700 displacements
- Disaster-related: 5.4 million displacements