Global internal displacement hits record 75.9 million at end of 2023
IDMC's 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement found that 75.9 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of 2023 — a record — of whom 68.3 million were displaced by conflict and violence and 7.7 million by disasters, reflecting major crises in Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine and the DRC. In the causal graph this event strengthens Armed-Conflict Intensity, a driver that strengthens Global deaths from organized violence (UCDP) — a worsening welfare path.
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IDMC's 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement found that 75.9 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of 2023 — a record — of whom 68.3 million were displaced by conflict and violence and 7.7 million by disasters, reflecting major crises in Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine and the DRC.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
OrganizationDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.2 · verified
IDMC is the reporting body, not a cause of displacement; contribution direction neutral (it documents rather than drives the outcome).
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactGlobal internal displacement hits record 75.9 million at end of 2023
- strengthensDriverArmed-Conflict Intensity
- strengthensIndicators (5)Global deaths from organized violence (UCDP)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 14 May 2024 · verified
The record displacement is an outcome that reflects (and signals continued) high conflict intensity rather than causing it; modeled as a strengthening indicator of the driver's pressure.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.45 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.9)
Observed
245k deaths per year · 195k above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.42 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.85)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.5)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
All indicators on this path (5)
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.5)
Observed
37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Above normal = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorInternal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- contributed toFactGlobal internal displacement hits record 75.9 million at end of 2023
- strengthensDriverArmed-Conflict Intensity
- strengthensIndicatorGlobal deaths from organized violence (UCDP)
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Factrail. (2026). Global internal displacement hits record 75.9 million at end of 2023. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sec-record-global-internal-displacement-2023
https://factrail.ai/facts/sec-record-global-internal-displacement-2023
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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