{"chart":{"note":"A value of 0 means that IDMC is not aware of any internally displaced people (IDPs) in that region at the time of reporting. It does not mean that IDMC has confirmed that there are no IDPs.","citation":"Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2026)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/internal-displacement","selection":["World","Sudan","Democratic Republic of Congo","Ukraine","Syria"]},"columns":{"Internally displaced people":{"titleShort":"Internally displaced people","titleLong":"Internally displaced people","descriptionShort":"Internally displaced people are those who had to leave their homes because of violence or disaster and have not crossed an international state border. This includes all individuals who are currently displaced, regardless of how many times they have been displaced.","descriptionKey":"- This data represents the total number of internally displaced people living in a region at the end of the year.\n- The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) counts a person as internally displaced if their displacement was forced or involuntary, they have left their habitual residence, and they have not crossed an international border.\n- The data source provides rounded numbers to reflect the inherent uncertainty in displacement data. Figures equal or lower than 100,000 are rounded to two significant digits while figures above 100,000 are rounded to the nearest thousand.","descriptionProcessing":"- This figure is the sum of the number of people displaced due to conflict and violence and the number of people displaced due to disasters.\n- We only calculate this total from 2019. Before 2019, IDMC only has figures on people displaced by disasters for some countries, so a total of people displaced by conflict and by disasters would be incomplete. From 2019, we convert IDMC’s “N/A” values to 0.","shortUnit":"","unit":"people","timespan":"2019-2025","type":"Integer","owidVariableId":1354518,"shortName":"total_displacement_rounded","lastUpdated":"2026-10-27","nextUpdate":"2027-10-27","citationShort":"Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Internally displaced people – IDMC” [dataset]. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, “Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD)” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1354518.metadata.json"},"World region according to OWID":{"titleShort":"World region according to OWID","titleLong":"World region according to OWID","descriptionShort":"Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.","unit":"","timespan":"2023-2023","type":"Continent","owidVariableId":900801,"shortName":"owid_region","lastUpdated":"2023-01-01","citationShort":"Our World in Data","citationLong":"Our World in Data. “World region according to OWID” [dataset]. Our World in Data, “Regions” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/900801.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}