Record number of people displaced in 2020
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Conflicts and natural disasters forced 40.5 million people to flee within their own country in 2020, bringing the total number of people living in internal displacement around the world to a record 55 million
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NUMBERS OF NEWLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN 2020

Countries with most new displacements by:

Conflict and violence
Disasters

Pakistan: 829,000 
Bangladesh: 4.4m
China: 5.1m
United States 1.7m
Ethiopia: 1.7m
Afghanistan 404,000
Honduras 937,000
India 3.9m
Vietnam 1.3m
Burkina Faso 515,000
Somalia 1.3m
Mali 271,000
Philippines 4.4m
Syria 1.8m
S. Sudan 277,000
Indonesia 705,000
CAR 318,000
DRC: 2.2m
Mozambique 592,000

Total 40.5m
30.7m
9.8m


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Sources: AFP, IDMC, NRC
Picture: Getty Images
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