UNHCR · Conflict & Displacement
Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR
People displaced within their own country by conflict, whom UNHCR protects or assists. Not every country's internally displaced population is counted here.
- Coverage
- 63 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2025
- Series
- 63
- Unit
- people
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- unhcr-idps
- Interva ID
- unhcr-idps
Recency
current
data to 2025; catalog to 2025
Provenance
1 step
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
100%Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%1 of 63 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 63 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 21 observations; the earliest begins in 1993.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR for each of the 63 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 1993–2025
- Angola 1993–2025
- Armenia 1993–2025
- Azerbaijan 1993–2025
- Benin 2023–2025
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993–2025
- Burkina Faso 2017–2025
- Burundi 1994–2025
- Cambodia 1994–2025
- Cameroon 2015–2025
- Central African Republic 2006–2025
- Chad 2006–2025
- Colombia 2000–2025
- Congo 2006–2025
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 2000–2025
- Côte d'Ivoire 2002–2025
- Croatia 1993–2025
- Cyprus 1993–2025
- El Salvador 2017–2025
- Eritrea 2000–2025
- Ethiopia 2017–2025
- Georgia 1993–2025
- Ghana 1994–2025
- Guatemala 1994–2025
- Guinea-Bissau 1998–2025
- Haiti 2023–2025
- Honduras 2015–2025
- Iraq 1996–2025
- Kenya 2008–2025
- Kyrgyzstan 1999–2025
- Lebanon 2006–2025
- Liberia 1994–2025
- Libya 2011–2025
- Mali 1994–2025
- Mexico 2022–2025
- Moldova, Republic of 1997–2025
- Montenegro 2006–2025
- Mozambique 2016–2025
- Myanmar 2006–2025
- Nepal 2006–2025
- Niger 2015–2025
- Nigeria 2014–2025
- North Macedonia 2001–2025
- Pakistan 2008–2025
- Papua New Guinea 2020–2025
- Philippines 2010–2025
- Russian Federation 1994–2025
- Rwanda 1994–2025
- Serbia 1995–2025
- Sierra Leone 1993–2025
- Solomon Islands 2021–2024
- Somalia 1996–2025
- South Sudan 2011–2025
- Sri Lanka 1993–2025
- Sudan 2004–2025
- Syrian Arab Republic 2012–2025
- Tajikistan 1993–2025
- Timor-Leste 2006–2015
- Togo 2005–2025
- Uganda 2006–2025
- Ukraine 2014–2025
- Yemen 2007–2025
- Zimbabwe 2011–2025
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2025 | 3.20M | people |
| Angola | 2025 | 0 | people |
| Armenia | 2025 | 0 | people |
| Azerbaijan | 2025 | 657,155 | people |
| Benin | 2025 | 27,294 | people |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2025 | 94,796 | people |
| Burkina Faso | 2025 | 2.06M | people |
| Burundi | 2025 | 6815 | people |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 517,555 | people |
| Cameroon | 2025 | 1.00M | people |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as UNHCR declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR population statistics — idps by country of asylum; government and UNHCR figures, not distinguished per figure
declared by unhcr in population
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
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.
@misc{interva-unhcr-idps,
title = {Internally displaced people of concern to UNHCR},
author = {UNHCR},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/unhcr-idps}},
note = {Interva dataset unhcr-idps; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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