internally displaced person

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internally displaced person (plural internally displaced persons or internally displaced people)

  1. Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.
    Synonyms: (initialism) IDP, internal refugee
    • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in The Guardian[1]:
      By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.

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