People displaced internally by conflict and violence — new displacements (annual)

This statistic measures the number of **new internal displacements** triggered by **conflict and violence** in a given year—people who were forced to flee their homes but remained within their country’s borders. Unlike refugee counts (cross-border), internal displacement captures rapid, often repeated movements inside a country and is highly sensitive to spikes in violence, insecurity, and front-line shifts.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) compiles these figures from a structured review of multiple sources (e.g., UN agencies, NGOs, government reporting, media and situational updates), applying quality checks and, where needed, estimation methods to avoid double-counting and to reconcile overlapping reports. The result is one of the most widely used global datasets for tracking internal displacement dynamics annually.