The index for the issue of “internal displacement” below is structured on the basis of the following sub-topics:

  • Internal displacement
  • Disaster displacement
  • Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
  • Planned relocation
  • The impacts of COVID-19
  • The role of technology

Deep dive into global and regional trends of internal displacement

Chapters 2 and 3 of the World Migration Report 2022 provide global and regional trends on the number of new displacements due to disaster, as well as violence and conflict according to the latest data released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

For global trends on internal displacement

For (sub)regional trends on internal displacement

  • Africa: p. 67
  • West and Central Africa: pp. 68-69
  • Eastern and Southern Africa: p. 71
  • Southern and Eastern Africa: p. 71
  • North Africa: pp. 72-73
  • Asia: pp. 79-80
  • Middle East: p. 81
  • Central Asia: p. 82
  • Eastern Asia: p. 84
  • Southern Asia: pp. 84-85
  • South-East Asia: p. 86
  • Europe: p. 94
  • South-Eastern and Eastern Europe: p. 95
  • Northern, Western and Southern Europe: p. 97
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: p. 105
  • Central America and the Caribbean: pp. 106-107
  • South America: pp. 107-108
  • Norther America: p. 114
  • Oceania: pp. 122-124
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Internal displacement

  • 2022 edition, chapter 7 on "International migration as a stepladder of opportunity", p. 191
  • 2020 edition, chapter 7 on "Migration and health", pp. 209
  • 2020 edition, chapter 8 on "Children and unsafe migration", pp. 231, 235 and 241
  • 2020 edition, chapter 10 on "Migrants caught in crises", p. 286

Disaster displacement

  • 2022 edition, chapter 9 on "Migration and the slow-onset impacts of climate change", pp. 233-234, 237-239 , 243, 245, 248-250 and 252
  • 2020 edition, chapter 9 on "Human mobility and adaptation to environmental change", pp. 253-255, 257-259, 262-269
  • 2020 edition, chapter 5 on "Migrants' contributions", p. 175
  • 2020 edition, chapter 10 on "Migrants caught in crises", pp. 271, 272, 274, 280 and 289
  • 2018 edition, chapter 5 on "Global migration governance frameworks", pp. 125, 126, 131, 144

Internally displaced persons (IDPs)

  • 2022 edition, chapter 6 on "Peace and security as drivers of safe migration", pp. 179-181 and 183
  • 2022 edition, chapter 7 on "International migration as a stepladder of opportunity", pp. 194 and 200
  • 2022 edition, chapter 9 on "Migration and the slow-onset impacts of climate change", p. 234, 236 and 238 
  • 2020 edition, chapter 7 on "Migration and health", p. 222
  • 2020 edition, chapter 8 on "Children and unsafe migration", pp. 233 and 237
  • 2020 edition, chapter 9 on "Human mobility and adaptation to environmental change", p. 267
  • 2018 edition, chapter 7 on "Understanding migration from migrants' perspectives", p. 187
  • 2018 edition, chapter 9 on "Migration, violent extremism and social exclusion", pp. 210-214

Planned relocation  

  • 2022 edition, chapter 9 on "Migration and the slow-onset impacts of climate change", pp. 223, 242, 246-248 and 250-251
  • 2020 edition, chapter 9 on "Human mobility and adaptation to environmental change", p. 254-258, 263, 265-266, 268-269
  • 2018 edition, chapter 5 on "Global migration governance frameworks", pp. 140-141 and 144

Impacts of COVID-19

  • 2022 edition, chapter 5 on "COVID-19’s impact on migration, mobility and migrants globally", p. 161

The role of technology

  • 2022 edition, chapter 11 on "Artificial intelligence, migration and mobility", pp. 287 and 290