India records 5.4 mn displacements due to disasters in 2024, highest in 12 years: Report
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India faced 5.4 million displacements in 2024 due to floods, storms, and violence, with climate change as a major driver.
India recorded 5.4 million displacements in 2024 due to floods, storms and other disasters, the highest figure in 12 years, a new report said on Tuesday (May 13, 2025).
The report by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that the country recorded 1,700 displacements associated with violence, fewer than in 2023 when communal violence escalated in Manipur.
Further violent incidents in Manipur, including the burning of homes, triggered 1,000 movements in 2024.
The IDMC said two-thirds of the internal displacements in India were triggered by floods.
It said climate change, deforestation, erosion and the lack of maintenance of dams and embankments were some of the main drivers of risk.
According to the report, Assam saw 2.5 million internal displacements in 2024 due to the most intense floods in more than a decade that struck the state.
Storms, including major cyclones, triggered 1.6 million displacements in the country.
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