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PEOPLE DISPLACED BY DISASTERS -
GLOBAL ESTIMATES 2014 - CONSIDER FOR WOMEN
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Report Highlights:
The IDMC - Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre
latest Global Estimates Report shows that 22 million people were displaced in
2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years,
the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of
the global total, were displaced during the year. Although both wealthy and
poorer countries are affected, developing countries bear the brunt, accounting
for more than 85 per cent of displacement. In the Philippines, typhoon Haiyan
alone displaced 4.1 million people.Viewed relative to population size, seasonal
floods also caused significant displacement in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably
in Niger, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan.
