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Internally Displaced People by African country

2025

Number of people displaced within their own country (UNHCR).

Africa, 202552 of 54 countries
30.5mtotal across the countries with a figure
Highest in 2025Sudan · 9.1mLowest in 2025Zimbabwe · 0Reported in 202552 of 54 countries surveyed
All 54, ranked. Pinned countries are drawn in vermilion.
02.5m5.0m7.5m10.0mSudan9.1mDemocratic Republic of the Congo5.7mNigeria3.5mSomalia3.3mEthiopia2.4mBurkina Faso2.1mSouth Sudan1.3mCameroon1.0mMozambique462kNiger460kCentral African Republic427kMali415kChad220kLibya33kBenin27kTogo10kBurundi7kAlgeria0Angola0Botswana0Cabo Verde0Comoros0Cote d'Ivoire0Djibouti0Egypt0Equatorial Guinea0Eritrea0Eswatini0Gabon0Gambia0Ghana0Guinea0Guinea-Bissau0Kenya0Lesotho0Liberia0Madagascar0Malawi0Mauritania0Mauritius0Morocco0Namibia0Republic of the Congo0Rwanda0Senegal0Sierra Leone0South Africa0Tanzania0Tunisia0Uganda0Zambia0Zimbabwe0Sao Tome and Principeno dataSeychellesno data
20142025
UNHCR · national statistics offices · the provider's own estimates where a country has not reportedCC BY 4.0
Countries

By region

Summed across the countries with a figure, so a region’s total is only as complete as its coverage.
Northern Africa6 of 6 countries9.2m
Eastern Africa17 of 18 countries7.5m
Middle Africa8 of 9 countries7.3m
Western Africa16 of 16 countries6.5m
Southern Africa5 of 5 countries0
Africaall 54 countries · 52 with a 2025 figure30.5m

What to know before you quote this

Specific to this series. For how we treat data generally, see methods.
Two countries have no usable 2025 recordNot a low value — no figure within the window. Sao Tome and Principe and Seychelles are hatched on the map and blank in the table.
Certainty is judged year by yearA country can be Reported in one year and Modelled the next. The tag follows the year on the scrubber, so the 2025 assessment is not a verdict on the whole series.

About this data

Internally Displaced PeopleNumber of people displaced within their own country (UNHCR).
SourceUNHCR, with processing by Africa API
Unitpeople
Last updated1 Jan 2025
Next expected updateJan 2026
Date range2025–2025
Coverage52 of 54 countries · 52 reported, 0 modelled, 2 with no usable figure

How the figure is made

ReportedA national statistics office or the original provider published the figure for that year directly. 52 countries did so for 2025 — the certainty shown on this page is that 2025 assessment, not a per-series one.ModelledNo direct figure that year. The provider’s own estimate, interpolation or projection stands in, and is marked as such wherever it appears.No dataNo usable figure within the window. Drawn hatched on the map and left blank in the table — not zero, and not filled in.

These three states are used the same way across every indicator on the site — how we treat certainty explains the full set and what we never do to a number.

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How to cite this page
Africa API (2026) — "Internally Displaced People". Data adapted from UNHCR. Retrieved 18 Oct 2026 from africa-api.com/indicators/internally-displaced
The request behind this view
GET /v1/data?metric_key=idps_total&year=2025&limit=100

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Internally Displaced People: most recent figure per country, highest to lowest

52 countries · each with its own period

The figures at the top of the page compare every country in the same year. This list takes each country’s newest figure instead, whatever its period, so the order can differ.

#CountryInternally Displaced PeoplePeriod
1Sudan9.14M2025
2Democratic Republic of the Congo5.67M2025
3Nigeria3.54M2025
4Somalia3.35M2025
5Ethiopia2.38M2025
6Burkina Faso2.06M2025
7South Sudan1.28M2025
8Cameroon1M2025
9Mozambique461.75K2025
10Niger459.59K2025
11Central African Republic427.48K2025
12Mali414.52K2025
13Chad219.6K2025
14Libya32.79K2025
15Benin27.29K2025
16Togo10.17K2025
17Burundi6.82K2025
18Algeria02025
19Angola02025
20Botswana02025
21Cabo Verde02025
22Comoros02025
23Cote d'Ivoire02025
24Djibouti02025
25Egypt02025
26Equatorial Guinea02025
27Eritrea02025
28Eswatini02025
29Gabon02025
30Gambia02025
31Ghana02025
32Guinea02025
33Guinea-Bissau02025
34Kenya02025
35Lesotho02025
36Liberia02025
37Madagascar02025
38Malawi02025
39Mauritania02025
40Mauritius02025
41Morocco02025
42Namibia02025
43Republic of the Congo02025
44Rwanda02025
45Senegal02025
46Sierra Leone02025
47South Africa02025
48Tanzania02025
49Tunisia02025
50Uganda02025
51Zambia02025
52Zimbabwe02025
Which observations are included?
The ranking includes 52 of 54 countries with available observations for 2023 or later and within 2 years of the freshest result. Each figure shows its reporting period. Countries without an eligible observation are omitted.
Does a higher value mean a better result?
The ranking is sorted by value, from highest to lowest. The order does not rate a country's performance. Interpretation depends on the indicator and its definition.

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