Overview
- Geneva’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre counted more than 82 million people displaced within their own countries in 2025, the second-highest total on record.
- Conflict and violence forced 32.2 million of those moves, a new peak that rose 60% from 2024.
- For the first time since tracking began, conflict-driven displacement exceeded that from storms, floods, and other hazards.
- Nearly two thirds of the conflict displacements were in Iran and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with many people uprooted more than once, the IDMC said.
- Countries with the largest overall caseloads include Sudan, Colombia, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, which the Norwegian Refugee Council says reflects a global failure to protect civilians.