Summary & key figures:

IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on internally displaced children and youth.

Part 1 presents updated data and analysis of internal displacement at the global level. Data and contextual updates are included in the regional overviews and country spotlights.

Part 2 explores the impacts of displacement on children and youth, so often invisible in displacement data, while highlighting promising initiatives that address some of their challenges.

A special focus is focusing on “Covid-19: An added burden on the precarious lives of IDPs” and in particular the impacts of the pandemics on livelihoods and food security.

Key figures:

1. More people are internally displaced worldwide than ever before, a record 59.1 million.

2. The majority have fled conflict and violence, and the figure does not yet include people recently displaced in Ukraine.

3. Disasters, mostly cyclones and floods, continued to trigger most internal displacements, or movements, in 2021.

4. A record number of internal displacements associated with conflict and violence occurred during the year, however.

5. More than 80 per cent of them took place in sub-Saharan Africa.

6. The direct economic impacts of internal displacement world- wide were at least $21 billion in 2021.

7. Of the nearly 60 million inter- nally displaced people (IDPs), 25.2 million are children under the age of 18.