A new report says the war in Ukraine helped push the number of people left internally displaced across the world last year to a record high of 71.1 million.
FILE - Syrians walk in a camp for internally displaced people in al-Bab, northern Syria, on May 29, 2018. The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday May 11, 2023. Syria had 6.8 million displaced by conflict after more than a decade of civil war.
By the end of 2022, 5.9 million people had been forced to move inside Ukraine because of Russia's invasion, bringing the global total of people internally displaced by conflict and violence to more than 62 million, an increase of 17% since 2021. Syria had 6.8 million displaced by conflict after The number of people displaced inside their country at the end of the year because of disasters like floods and famine reached 8.7 million, up by 45% from 2021.Internal displacement refers to people forced to move inside their own borders and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's report didn’t take into account those who left for different countries.
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