UNHCR · Conflict & Displacement
Nigeria: Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR
3.54Mpeople · 2025+63.2% since 2015
People displaced within their own country by conflict, whom UNHCR protects or assists. Not every country's internally displaced population is counted here. Annual figures for Nigeria from 2014 to 2025.
Every year
| Year | Value (people) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,544,519 | |
| 2024 | 3,432,959 | |
| 2023 | 3,313,601 | |
| 2022 | 3,286,881 | |
| 2021 | 3,084,916 | |
| 2020 | 2,610,278 | |
| 2019 | 2,195,779 | |
| 2018 | 2,167,925 | |
| 2017 | 1,704,080 | |
| 2016 | 2,219,272 | |
| 2015 | 2,172,532 | |
| 2014 | 1,188,018 |
Source
Published by UNHCR, produced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.
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UNHCR (2026). Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-idps (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR in other countries
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iraq
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Mali
- Mexico
- Moldova, Republic of
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
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