This report provides the annual global evidence base on internal displacement driven by conflict, violence, and disasters. IDMC recorded more than 62.2 million internal displacements across 146 countries and territories in 2025 — a 6% drop from 2024 that masks sharply diverging trends: conflict and violence displacements rose nearly 60% to a record 32.3 million, while disaster-related displacements fell 35% to 29.9 million after the exceptional levels of 2024. For the first time, conflict and violence triggered more displacements than disasters. Sub-Saharan Africa remained the epicentre of conflict displacement, while a first-ever decline in the region’s total IDP stock was recorded, largely due to returns in the DRC and Sudan.
Beyond the headline figures, GRID 2026 places strong emphasis on the fragility of the data systems underpinning these estimates. It documents how reduced frequency and geographic coverage of displacement assessments created growing information gaps, compounded by a drop in UN agencies’ share of reporting sources (from 27% in 2020–2024 to 18% in 2025). To maintain a credible, comparable global baseline despite these disruptions, IDMC relies on multi-source triangulation, partner validation, and continuous engagement with government, humanitarian, and civil-society data systems. This focus on data resilience, comparability, and the institutional arrangements that sustain trustworthy displacement statistics — echoed in examples from Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Ecuador — makes the report a directly relevant resource for EGRISS’s work on strengthening official statistics on displaced populations.