Brazil - Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases)

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases) in Brazil was 358,000 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 523,000 in 2009, while its lowest value was 14,000 in 2016.

Definition: Internally displaced persons are defined according to the 1998 Guiding Principles (http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/1998/ocha-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement) as people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border. "New Displacement" refers to the number of new cases or incidents of displacement recorded over the specified year, rather than the number of people displaced. This is done because people may have been displaced more than once.

Source: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

See also:

Year Value
2008 309,000
2009 523,000
2010 230,000
2011 170,000
2012 35,000
2013 82,000
2014 150,000
2015 59,000
2016 14,000
2017 71,000
2018 86,000
2019 295,000
2020 358,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility