An unprecedented 71.1m internally displaced people (IDPs) were registered in 2022 -- up 20% from a year earlier -- amid mass displacement from Russia's war in Ukraine, as well as by the monsoon floods that drenched Pakistan.
File: In this picture taken on May 4, 2023, residents cross a temporary bridge near-empty hotels and houses that were damaged by flash floods on the banks of river Swat last summer in 2022 in Bahrain town of Swat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistan was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer 2022 that put a third of the country underwater, damaged two million homes and killed more than 1,700 people.
That marks an all-time high for new internal displacements, and an increase of 60 percent compared to the some 38 million fresh displacements seen in 2021."Much of the increase is caused, of course, by the war in Ukraine, but also by floods in Pakistan, by new and ongoing conflicts across the world, and by a number of sudden and slow onset disasters that we've seen from the Americas all the way to the Pacific."Last year, new internal displacements from conflict surged to 28.
The global internal displacement figures are only expected to grow this year, driven in part by fresh conflicts like the violence ravaging Sudan forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. "Clearly, it's a very volatile situation on the ground," she said, pointing out that those being newly displaced by the fighting were joining the ranks of more than three million people already displaced across Sudan.While internal displacement is a global phenomenon, nearly three quarters of the world's IDPs live in just 10 countries: Syria, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Colombia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.
NRC chief Jan Egeland described the overlapping crises spurring ever more displacement around the world as a"perfect storm".
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