Total number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in displacement at the end of each year as a result of armed conflict and violence, as monitored by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). This is a stock (people still displaced), not annual new movements. Higher values indicate a larger population uprooted by insecurity.
How to read it
Lower is better — readings above the norm count as worse, so they plot downward here.
Measured value over time. Its norm (41,000,000 people (stock, end-of-year)) is far off this scale, so the series stays worse than norm throughout — the deviation badge shows the gap.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
Intense fighting forces people to flee, raising the stock of conflict/violence IDPs, often with a lag as displacement accumulates.
Sustained de-escalation can reduce new conflict displacement and may enable safe, voluntary return, while accumulated displacement remains sticky and depends on security, housing, services, and rights. The expected direction is weakening with a long, context-dependent lag.
Total number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in displacement at the end of each year as a result of armed conflict and violence, as monitored by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). This is a stock (people still displaced), not annual new movements. Higher values indicate a larger population uprooted by insecurity.
This indicator’s slice of Factrail’s verified causal web — the people, facts, drivers and welfare indicators it connects to. Select any node to trace a path.
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