The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024 (GRID-2024) was released by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

❖ In 2023, the number of internally displaced people increased to 75.9 million, from 71.1 million in the preceding year.

❖ Internal displacement is the number of forced movements of people within the borders of their country recorded during (a) year.

❖ During 2022-2023, conflicts and violence causing more displacements, particularly in the last two years.

❖ 68.3 million people were living in internal displacement as a result of conflict and violence at the end of 2023.

❖ Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and Yemen host nearly half of the world’s internally displaced people.

❖ This is a 49 per cent increase over the 2022 figure.