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04/12/22 15:33 PM IST

Number of people forcibly displaced crossed 100 million in 2022: UNDP

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  • For the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 
Key Findings
  • Russia- Ukraine war: 6.5 million people are estimated to have been internally displaced
  • By 2050, climate change could force more than an estimated 216 million people to move within their own countries.
  • Disaster-related internal displacement is even more widespread, with new displacements recorded in over 130 countries and territories in 2021
  • Most affected regions: sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa and parts of the Americas
Impact of forced displacement
  • These internally displaced persons struggle to cover their basic needs, find decent work or have a stable source of income
  • 48 per cent of the internally displaced households surveyed earned less money than before displacement.
  • The direct impact of internal displacement globally was estimated at over $21.5 billion in 2021 in the form of the financial cost of providing every internally displaced person with housing, education, health and security, and accounts.
Source- DTE

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