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Home / News / World News / War, climate displaced tens of millions in 2020: Study
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War, climate displaced tens of millions in 2020: Study

War, climate displaced tens of millions in 2020: Study
Written by Nikita Gupta
(Sourced from PTI)
May 20, 2021, 05:56 pm 2 min read
War, climate displaced tens of millions in 2020: Study
Wars and violence resulted in many people abandoning their homes

A key group that monitors internal displacement said on Thursday that violence and disasters forced people to relocate within their countries more than 40 million times last year, the highest such tally in over a decade. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, in its annual global report, said a record 55 million people were living away from their homes but within their countries.

Figures
Number of internally displaced people twice that of refugees

In the last year, storms, floods, protracted and new conflicts, drove up the figures that have been growing for more than a decade. Sometimes people have moved two or three times within the country. The Geneva-based center, which is part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said the number of internally displaced was more than twice that of refugees at the end of last year.

Displacement
Over 48 million left their homes because of violence

The figures might be a significant underestimate because COVID-19 travel restrictions impeded the collection of data. "It's shocking that someone was forced to flee their home inside their own country every single second last year," said NRC Secretary-General, Jan Egeland. Of those displaced at the end of the year, some 48 million people had fled conflict and violence and seven million had escaped disasters.

War and climate
War in Syria and cyclones in the Pacific uprooted millions

The center pointed to escalating violence and wider activity from extremist groups in countries like Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso last year, and ongoing wars in places like Congo, Syria, and Afghanistan. It also noted intense cyclone seasons in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, and long rainy seasons in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, saying such weather woes uprooted millions.

China
China registered displacement of over five million people

Overall, the highest number of internally displaced people last year was in China, which faces floods regularly and local authorities encourage or require internal displacement to get out of the way of rising waters to avoid any kind of harm, followed by the Philippines and Bangladesh. More than five million people in China were forced into internal displacement last year.

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An Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (IIJNM) graduate, Nikita holds a keen interest in traveland lifestyle writing. A wallflower by nature, she consumes books like food. Mythology lover, feministand tries to run a blog when she is not binge-watching, art-journaling or scrolling through Instagram.
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