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GRID 2025: Global Internal Displacements Hit 83.4 Million in 2024 and India Accounts for 5.4 Million.

International | Dated: 16 May 2025

On May 13, 2025, the Geneva (Switzerland)-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and Oslo (Norway)-based Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) released the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2025, presenting a detailed analysis of internal displacement trends across the globe.

🎯 Key Highlights:

  • - The report revealed that the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) worldwide reached a record high of 83.4 million by the end of 2024, marking the highest total ever recorded and a doubling since 2018.
  • - In India, the number of displacements reached 5.4 million in 2024, the highest in the past 12 years.

💡 Other Important Facts:

  • (i) Sudan topped the list with 11.6 million IDPs, the highest ever recorded in a single country, driven by ongoing civil war. Other significantly affected countries included the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Afghanistan, and Myanmar, each reporting over 3 million IDPs.
  • (ii) Disasters triggered 45.8 million displacements in 2024, the highest annual figure since IDMC began tracking in 2008.
  • (iii) In India, floods accounted for 66% of total displacements, including 2.5 million displacements in Assam, which experienced its worst flooding in over a decade.

📚 Test Your Knowledge:

According to the recently released GRID 2025 report, how many people were internally displaced worldwide by the end of 2024?

Correct Answer: 83.4 million

🚀 Quick Recap:

About Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

  • Director : Alexandra Bilak
  • Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland