2025 Global report on internal displacement

This 10th edition of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) once again presents record-breaking figures, with a global estimate of 83.4 million people living in internal displacement at the end of 2024 – more than twice the number reported in the first GRID a decade ago. Conflicts and violence have left 73.5 million people displaced and disasters 9.8 million, in both cases the highest figures on record. Behind each of these internally displaced people (IDPs) is a life uprooted and a future jeopardised.

The number of internal displacements associated with disasters also reached its highest ever in 2024, and many countries reported record figures. The United States accounted for more than 11 million movements after several major hurricanes prompted mass evacuations. Many of the 45.8 million disaster displacements recorded around the world took the form of government-led pre-emptive evacuations, but they still come at a human and financial cost that could be reduced with further investments in preparedness and disaster risk reduction.