India - 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 India was 3,900 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 500,000 in 2012 and a minimum value of 1,000 in 2015.

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
2009 33,000
2010 107,000
2011 53,000
2012 500,000
2013 64,000
2014 345,000
2015 1,000
2016 448,000
2017 78,000
2018 169,000
2019 19,000
2020 3,900

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

Internally displaced persons, new displacement associated with disasters (number of cases) in India was 3,856,000 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 12 years was 9,110,000 in 2012, while its lowest value was 1,346,000 in 2017.

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 6,662,000
2009 5,304,000
2010 1,411,000
2011 1,503,000
2012 9,110,000
2013 2,145,000
2014 3,428,000
2015 3,655,000
2016 2,400,000
2017 1,346,000
2018 2,675,000
2019 5,018,000
2020 3,856,000

Internally displaced persons, total displaced by conflict and violence (number of people)

The value for Internally displaced persons, total displaced by conflict and violence (number of people) in India was 473,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,000,000 in 2012 and a minimum value of 470,000 in 2019.

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. “People displaced” refers to the number of people living in displacement as of the end of each year, and reflects the stock of people displaced at the end of the previous year, plus inflows of new cases arriving over the year as well as births over the year to those displaced, minus outflows which may include returnees, those who settled elsewhere, those who integrated locally, those who travelled over borders, and deaths.

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

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Year Value
2009 500,000
2010 650,000
2011 650,000
2012 1,000,000
2013 526,000
2014 854,000
2015 612,000
2016 796,000
2017 806,000
2018 479,000
2019 470,000
2020 473,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility