Africa-Press – Mozambique. A record 83.4 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of 2024, marking the highest number ever recorded, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025 released Tuesday.
The figure, released by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), has more than doubled since 2018 and is now equivalent to the population of Germany.
Conflict and violence accounted for nearly 90% of these cases, displacing 73.5 million people, according to the report.
Sudan reported 11.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs), the highest ever for a single country — nearly 60% of the global total, while nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip remained displaced.
“These latest numbers prove that internal displacement is not just a humanitarian crisis; it’s a clear development and political challenge that requires far more attention than it currently receives,” said IDMC Director Alexandra Bilak.
Meanwhile, disasters drove 45.8 million internal displacements in 2024 — the highest since records began in 2008. The US alone, the report said, saw 11 million disaster-related movements, the largest ever recorded for any country in a single year. Climate-related events, particularly cyclones and floods, triggered 99.5% of all disaster displacements.
“This year’s figures must act as a wake-up call for global solidarity,” said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, calling the lack of political will and funding a “moral stain on humanity.”
Overlapping crises are worsening vulnerabilities, the report said. Three-quarters of those displaced by conflict were in countries highly vulnerable to climate change. As the number of countries reporting both conflict and disaster displacement tripled since 2009, IDMC warned that without urgent action, the cost of inaction will only rise.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) also described the figures as a “clear warning,” saying that without “bold and coordinated action,” the number of people displaced within their own countries will continue to grow rapidly.
“The IDMC report is also a call for preventive action, to use data and other tools to anticipate displacement before it happens, and for the humanitarian and development sectors to work together with governments to develop longer-term solutions to prevent displacement,” IOM Director General Amy Pope said in a statement.
Source: Anadolu Ajansı
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