Almost all IDPs globally are in countries/territories with food crises. The Sudan had the world’s largest number and the biggest increase since 2023.
Six out of the ten countries with the largest number of forcibly displaced people (refugees, asylum-seekers and IDPs) are classified as protracted displacement situations (UNHCR 2009).
In several of these countries, such as Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine (Gaza Strip), the Sudan and Syrian Arab Republic, IDPs experienced increasingly prolonged and often repeated displacement due to the protracted nature of conflicts or the overlap of conflict and weather extremes or disasters (HPG, August 2024).
