2026 Global report on internal displacement

The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2026 examines displacement trends across 146 countries and territories affected by conflict, violence and disasters. It tracks two key metrics: the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) living in displacement at a given point in time — measured as a snapshot at the end of each year — and the number of internal displacements, meaning each individual forced movement recorded during the year, which captures repeated and multiple movements by the same person. The report draws on data from more than 4,500 documents across 630 sources, covering 146 countries and territories, and is produced by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) in partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

The findings reveal that by the end of 2025, more than 82.2 million people were living in internal displacement across 104 countries and territories — a slight decrease from the record 83.5 million in 2024, marking the first decline in a decade, though figures remain far above the decadal average. More than 68.6 million were displaced by conflict and violence, and nearly 13.6 million by disasters. Throughout the year, IDMC recorded 62.2 million internal displacements across 146 countries and territories, a six per cent drop compared with 2024, but masking sharply diverging trends: conflict and violence triggered a record 32.3 million movements — a nearly 60 per cent increase on 2024, more than double the decadal average, and the highest figure ever recorded — while disaster displacements fell 35 per cent to 29.9 million following the exceptional levels of 2024. For the first time on record, conflict and violence triggered more movements than disasters, with Iran and the Democratic Republic of the Congo each accounting for around a third of the global conflict total.