El Salvador - Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with conflict and violence (number of cases)

The value for Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with conflict and violence (number of cases) in El Salvador was 114,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 6 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 454,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 114,000 in 2020.

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/)

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Year Value
2014 191,000
2015 170,000
2016 220,000
2017 296,000
2018 246,000
2019 454,000
2020 114,000

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

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases) in El Salvador was 17,000.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 60,000.00 in 2011, while its lowest value was 22.00 in 2014.

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/)

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Year Value
2008 95.00
2009 15,000.00
2010 16,000.00
2011 60,000.00
2013 2,300.00
2014 22.00
2015 2,000.00
2016 480.00
2017 390.00
2018 4,700.00
2019 1,900.00
2020 17,000.00

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility