Nearly 60 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2021

About 59.1 million people must to move worldwide in 2021 has been recorded, an all-time record. And it is expected that this record will be broken again in 2022, when the people of Ukraine massively evacuation in the midst of war.

According to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), around 38 million people will be displaced in 2021, some of which will be forced to evacuate multiple times. in year.

The figure marks the second-highest number of new annual displacements in a decade after 2020, which saw record evacuations due to a series of natural disasters.

In 2021, the number of new internal migrants due to conflict increased to 14.4 million, marking a 50% increase from 2020 and a more than 2-fold increase since 2012, the report found.

And global internal displacement figures are expected to increase only in 2022, especially due to the war in Ukraine. Accordingly, more than 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced within the country, the country ravaged by war since Russia launched a special military operation on February 24, along with more than 6 million people who have died. leave Ukraine.

By 2021, sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the most internal movement, with more than 5 million displacements reported in Ethiopia alone, as the country grapples with the Tigray conflict and drought. dire. This is the highest number ever recorded in a country.

Unprecedented displacement numbers were also recorded in 2021 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, where the Taliban returned to power, which, along with drought, has forced many people to flee their homes.

People fleeing conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia wait in line to receive aid at the Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. (Photo: AP)

The report shows that, in Myanmar, where the military took power in a coup in February 2021, the number of displaced people has also reached a record high.

The Middle East and North Africa region reported the lowest number of new displaced people in a decade. This is because conflicts in Syria, Libya and Iraq have somewhat de-escalated, but the total number of displaced people in the region remains high.

Syria, where civil war has raged for more than 11 years, still has the highest number of internally displaced people in the world at 6.7 million by the end of 2021. This is followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo with 5, 3 million, Colombia 5.2 million, Afghanistan and Yemen 4.3 million.

Besides the increase in displacement due to conflict, natural disasters continue to cause most new displacements in the country, increasing to 23.7 million displacements by 2021.

94% of that is attributed to weather and climate-related disasters such as tornadoes, monsoon rains, floods and droughts.

Experts say that climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of such extreme weather events.

China, the Philippines and India are hardest hit, accounting for about 70% of all disaster-related displacements in 2021.

In countries like Mozambique, Myanmar, Somalia and South Sudan, crises overlap impact food security and increase vulnerability of millions of people.

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