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Country or region Total number New New of IDPs as of 31 displacements in displacements inCosta Rica December 2015 2015 (disasters)Côte d'Ivoire 2015 (conflict)Croatia (conflict) 3,200 1,100Cuba 303,000Cyprus 78,000 1,000Dominica 272,000 500 2,000Dominican RepublicEcuador 78,000 56,000 700Egypt 289,000 28,000El Salvador 450,000 1,000Ethiopia 239,000 200 1,900France 100Georgia 251,000 1,114,000Ghana 2,000Greece 174,000 3,000 104,000Guatemala 612,000 100,000Guinea 100Haiti 6,100 1,200Honduras 3,290,000 9,300IndiaIndonesia 309,000 300Iran, Islamic Republic of 2,900Iraq 17,000 34,000Ireland 1,500Italy 12,000 2,000Japan 500,000 3,655,000Kazakhstan 204,000Kenya 5,400Kiribati 23,000Korea, Democratic 1,600People's Republic of 1,300Kosovo 486,000Kyrgyzstan 19,000Lao, People's 105,000Democratic Republic of 2,500Lebanon 6,000Libya 5,900 12,000 100 Global report on internal displacement 2016 97

Country or region Total number New New of IDPs as of 31 displacements in displacements in Macedonia (the former December 2015 2015 (disasters) Yugoslav republic of) 2015 (conflict) Madagascar (conflict) 87,000 Malawi 200 6,000 343,000 Malaysia 16,000 Mali 50,000 47,000 21,000 Mauritius 287,000 737,000 400 Mexico Micronesia, Federated 644,000 700 1,400 States of 50,000 288,000 91,000 Mongolia 6,800 Mozambique 153,000 90,000 Myanmar 2,096,000 199,000 800 Namibia 1,459,000 61,000 Nepal 1,618,000 New Zealand 221,000 Nicaragua 6,300 8 Niger 2,623,000 Nigeria 60,000 Norway 62,000 400 Pakistan 1,100 Palestine, State of 27,000 38,000 Panama 100,000 Papua New Guinea 24,000 Paraguay 1,223,000 200 Peru 1,697,000 1,002,000 Philippines* Portugal 10,000 Romania 100 Russian Federation Rwanda 171,000 Samoa 8,400 Senegal Solomon Islands 2,221,000 Somalia 10 South Africa South Sudan 200 6,600 2,000 1,000 1,000 59,000 14 15,00098 G20R1ID6

Country or region Total number New New of IDPs as of 31 displacements in displacements inSpain December 2015 2015 (disasters)Sri Lanka 2015 (conflict)Sudan (conflict) 144,000 4,100Sweden 44,000 66,000Switzerland 1,300,000Syria 3,182,000 8,300Taiwan 6,600,000 942,000 100Tajikistan 2,175,000 400Tanzania, Republic of 35,000Thailand 3,000 27,000Timor-Leste 11,000Togo 954,000 3,500Tunisia 30,000Turkey 200Tuvalu 1,679,000 300Uganda 5,000Ukraine 2,509,000 100United Kingdom 1,500United States 5,400Uruguay 600VanuatuVenezuela 6,100Vietnam 63,000Yemen 24,000Zambia 65,000Zimbabwe 45,000 9,600 83,000 25 800* Based on further analysis of the available displacement data, IDMC has revised the conflict-related displacement esti- mates for the Philippines. The number of people who became newly displaced by conflict during 2015 was 288,000, although not all remained displaced at year’s end. This updated information has been reflected in IDMC’s Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD), available at http://www.internal-displacement.org/database Global report on internal displacement 2016 99

Table 2: Largest disaster-related displacement events of 2015 Country Event Affected areas Month Figure Displace- Nepal name disaster source(s) ments began 2,623,000 India Gorkha Main affected districts: April National Plan- 1,801,000 Myanmar earthquake Gorkha, Dhading, ning Commis- and after- Nuwakot, Rasuwa, sion - Govern- 1,617,000 India shocks Makwanpur, Kath- ment of Nepal China mandu Sindhupal- 1,200,000 Chile chok, Lalitpur, Kavre, 1,100,000 Dolakha, Ramechhap, 1,000,000 Okhaldhunga Andhra Tamil Nadu state November National/local Pradesh and (especially in Chen- authority Tamil Nadu nai, Cuddalore, floods Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Vilupuram districts) and southern Andhra Pradesh state (especially Nellore and Chittoor districts) Monsoon 12 of the country’s July National natu- floods/ 14 states and regions ral disaster Cyclone (Ayeyarwady, Bago, management Komen Chin, Kachin, Kayin, committee Magway, Mandalay, Mon, Rakhine, Saga- ing, Shan Yangon), especially Chin and Rakhine states, and Magway and Sagaing regions Monsoon West Bengal, Odisha, July Disaster floods/ Manipur, Rajasthan, management Cyclone and Gujarat minister Komen Typhoon Zhejiang province July Sphere India - Inter-agency Chan-Hom group Illapel earth- Provinces of Cho- Septem- OCHA quake and apa and Coquimbo: ber tsunami Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Metro- politana, Lib. Gral Bernardo O’Higgins, Maule, Biobío, Arau- canía.100 G20R1ID6

Country Event Affected areas Month Figure Displace-Philip- name disaster source(s) mentspines Regions I,II, III, IV-A, began 938,000Philip- Typhoon NCR and CAR October Government 743,000pines Koppu December of the Philip- (local name Samar-Sorsogon area, pines 666,000Pakistan Lando) Region V and VIII October Typhoon National 562,000China Melor (local Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, August disaster risk name Nona) Federally Admnistered reduction and Tribal Areas, Gilgit-Bal- management Northern tistan, Azad Kashmir, command Afghanistan Punjab National dis- earthquake Provinces of Fujian, aster manage- Zhejiang, Jiangxi and ment authority Typhoon Anhui Soudelor ECHO Global report on internal displacement 2016 101

Table 3: Conflict-related displacement in 2015 Country New Total number Year that the Primary source displace- of IDPs as of total number Abyei area ments 31 December of IDPs was UN Security Council in 2015 2015 (conflict) last updated (UNSC) Afghanistan (conflict) UNHCR Armenia NGO Azerbaijan 82,000 2015 Government Bangladesh Research and academia Bosnia and 335,000 1,174,000 2016 Government Herzegovina 8,400 2015 Burundi 2016 IOM Cameroon 564,000 2012 IOM CAR 426,000 2016 UNHCR and government Chad 98,000 OCHA Colombia Government Congo 23,000 99,000 2016 Government (Republic of) 71,000 124,000 2015 Côte d'Ivoire 210,000 452,000 2016 UNSC Cyprus 36,000 107,000 2015 Government DR Congo 224,000 6,270,000 2015 OCHA and government Egypt 2015 Research and academia El Salvador 7,800 Research and academia Ethiopia IOM Georgia 3,200 303,000 2015 Government Guatemala 272,000 2015 United Nations 621,000 1,500,000 2016 Population Division Honduras 78,000 2015 Government India 78,000 2015 Media, government and 500 289,000 2015 NGOs Indonesia 56,000 450,000 2016 Media, IDMC Iraq 239,000 2014 IOM Kenya 251,000 OCHA Kosovo UNHCR Lebanon 1,000 174,000 2015 UN Relief and Works 612,000 2015 Agency for Palestine Libya Refugees in the Near 200 6,100 2015 East 1,114,000 3,290,000 2016 National Red Crescent 2015 Society 3,000 309,000 2015 17,000 2016 12,000 100,000 500,000 2016102 G20R1ID6

Country New Total number Year that the Primary source displace- of IDPs as of total numberMacedonia ments 31 December of IDPs was UNHCR and government(the former in 2015 2015 (conflict) last updatedYugoslav (conflict) IOM and governmentrepublic of) Research and academiaMali 200 2016 OCHA and NGOMexico UNHCRMyanmar 6,000 50,000 2016 OCHANepal 16,000 287,000 2016 IOM and governmentNiger 47,000 644,000 2016 UNHCRNigeria 737,000 50,000 2012 OCHA and NGOPakistan 153,000 2015 ICRC and mediaPalestine 700 2,096,000 2016Papua New 1,459,000 2016 GovernmentGuinea 288,000 221,000 2015 UNHCRPeru 2015 Government and NGOPhilippines* 90,000 6,300Russian 199,000 OCHAFederation 144,000 60,000 2015 UNHCR and OCHASenegal 1,300,000 62,000 2016 UNHCRSomalia 27,000 2014 GovernmentSouth Sudan 942,000 IOMSri Lanka 2,175,000 24,000 2015 OCHASudan 1,223,000 2016 Research and academiaSyria 1,697,000 2015 GovernmentThailand 2015 Research and academiaTogo 44,000 2016 UNHCRTurkey 3,182,000 2015 GovernmentUganda 6,600,000 2007 UNHCR and IOMUkraine 2014Yemen 35,000 2014 3,000 2012 2016 954,000 2015 30,000 1,679,000 2,509,000* Based on further analysis of the available displacement data, IDMC has revised the conflict-related displacement esti- mates for the Philippines. The number of people who became newly displaced by conflict during 2015 was 288,000, although not all remained displaced at year’s end. This updated information has been reflected in IDMC’s Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD), available at http://www.internal-displacement.org/database Global report on internal displacement 2016 103

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