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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre – IDMC
Global Estimates 2015: People Displaced by Disasters
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disaggregated by gender, age and specific vulnerabilities,
and to monitoring the situation of people caught in long-lasting or chronic displacement.”
Global Estimates 2015: People
displaced by disasters
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Download the data on new displacement (July 2015)
July 2015 – Latest figures from IDMC
estimate that more than 19.3 million people were forced to flee their homes by
disasters in 100 countries in 2014. Hundreds of thousands more are still
displaced following disasters in previous years.
Since 2008, an average of 26.4 million
people per year have been displaced from their homes by disasters brought on by
natural hazards. This is the equivalent to one person being displaced every
second. The number and scale of huge disasters creates significant fluctuation
from year to year in the total number of people displaced, while the trend over
decades is on the rise.
The time is opportune for displacement
to be better addressed in major global policy agenda and their implementation
in the post-2015 period. A comprehensive approach to displacement will help to
forge strong links and continuity between these initiatives.
This annual report, the sixth of its kind, draws on information from a wide range of sources, including governments, UN and international organisations, NGOs and media, to provide up-to-date figures and analysis on displacement caused by disasters associated with rapid-onset geophysical and weather-related hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and storms.