Conflict created more internal displacement than disasters last year: monitors
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More than 32 million people have been displaced in 2025 because of conflicts and violence within their country - more than ever before. Experts from the IDMC Observatory speak of "world-wide failure".
For the first time in 2025, more people worldwide were displaced by conflict and man-made violence in their home country than by natural disasters. In 2025, they registered 32.2 million displacements through conflict and violence, 60 percent more than in the previous year. Almost two thirds of them concerned Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Catastrophes such as storms and floods caused 29.9 million displacements, 35 percent less than i…
Imagine one of those dusty and precarious informal settlements that the world often sees from afar, through photographs taken in Africa, Asia or the Middle East: huts and tents built with branches, plastics, tarpaulins and sheets, where their tenants survive between poverty and defenselessness, suspended in permanent uncertainty. Now imagine a settlement that gathers more than 82 million people, that is, practically the population of Germany.
For the first time, armed conflicts have surpassed natural disasters as the main cause of internal displacement, according to an international report.
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