| Countries (A to Z) |
Description |
| Afghanistan |
136,565 (mostly Pashtuns and Kuchis displaced in south and west due to drought and instability) (2006) |
| Algeria |
400,000-600,000 (conflict between government forces, Islamic insurgents) (2006) |
| Angola |
61,700 (27-year civil war ending in 2002; 4 million IDPs already have returned) (2006) |
| Armenia |
8,400 (conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, majority have returned home since 1994 ceasefire) (2006) |
| Azerbaijan |
580,000-690,000 (conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh) (2006) |
| Bangladesh |
65,000 (land conflicts, religious persecution) (2006) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
180,251 (Bosnian Croats, Serbs, and Muslims displaced in 1992-95 war) (2006) |
| Burma |
540,000 (government offensives against ethnic insurgent groups near the eastern borders; most IDPs are ethnic Karen, Karenni, Shan, Tavoyan, and Mon) (2006) |
| Burundi |
100,000 (armed conflict between government and rebels; most IDPs in northern and western Burundi) (2006) |
| Central African Republic |
150,000 (ongoing unrest following coup in 2003) (2006) |
| Chad |
100,000 (2006) |
| China |
90,000 (2006) |
| Colombia |
1.8-3.8 million (conflict between government and illegal armed groups and FARC factions; drug wars) (2006) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
1.1 million (fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s; most IDPs are in eastern provinces) (2006) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
48,000 (multiple civil wars since 1992; most IDPs are ethnic Lari) (2006) |
| Croatia |
4,200-7,000 (Croats and Serbs displaced in 1992-95 war) (2006) |
| Cyprus |
210,000 (both Turkish and Greek Cypriots; many displaced for over 30 years) (2006) |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
750,000 (2002 coup; most IDPs are in western regions) (2006) |
| East Timor |
150,000 (2006) |
| Eritrea |
40,000-45,000 (border war with Ethiopia from 1998-2000; most IDPs are near the central border region) (2006) |
| Ethiopia |
100,000-280,000 (border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000 and ethnic clashes in Gambela; most IDPs are in Tigray and Gambela Provinces) (2006) |
| Georgia |
220,000-240,000 (displaced from Abkhazia and South Ossetia) (2006) |
| Guatemala |
undetermined (estimates vary from none to 1 million displaced from government's scorched-earth offensive in 1980s against indigenous people) (2006) |
| Guinea |
19,000 (cross-border incursions from Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone) (2006) |
| India |
at least 600,000 (about half are Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir) (2006) |
| Indonesia |
200,000-350,000 (government offensives against rebels in Aceh; most IDPs in Aceh, Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi Provinces, and Maluku), 300,000 (December 2006 floods in Aceh regions) (2006) |
| Iraq |
1.9 million (ongoing US-led war and Kurds' subsequent return) (2007) |
| Israel |
150,000-420,000 (Arab villagers displaced from homes in northern Israel) (2006) |
| Jordan |
160,000 (1967 Arab-Israeli War) (2006) |
| Kenya |
431,150 (KANU attacks on opposition tribal groups in 1990s) (2006) |
| Korea, North |
50,000-250,000 (government repression and famine) (2006) |
| Lebanon |
17,000 (1975-90 civil war, Israeli invasions), 200,000 (July-August 2006 war) (2006) |
| Liberia |
13,000 (civil war from 1990-2004; IDP resettlement began in November 2004) (2006) |
| Macedonia, Republic of |
fewer than 1,000 (ethnic conflict in 2001) (2006) |
| Maldives |
10,000 (December 2004 tsunami victims) (2006) |
| Mexico |
10,000-12,000 (government's quashing of Zapatista uprising in 1994 in eastern Chiapas Region) (2006) |
| Nepal |
100,000-200,000 (ongoing conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels; displacement spread across the country) (2006) |
| Nigeria |
undetermined (communal violence between Christians and Muslims since President OBASANJO's election in 1999; displacement is mostly short-term) (2006) |
| Pakistan |
undetermined (government strikes on Islamic militants in South Waziristan), 34,000 (October 2005 earthquake; most of those displaced returned to their home villages in the spring of 2006) (2006) |
| Peru |
60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions) (2005) |
| Philippines |
60,000 (fighting between government troops and MILF and Abu Sayyaf groups) (2006) |
| Russia |
25,000-180,000 (displacement from Chechnya and North Ossetia) (2006) |
| Senegal |
22,400 (approximately 65% of the IDP population returned in 2005, but new displacement is occurring due to clashes between government troops and separatists in Casamance region) (2006) |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
228,000 (mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999) (2006) |
| Solomon Islands |
5,400 displaced by tsunami on 2 April 2007 |
| Somalia |
400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2006) |
| Sri Lanka |
500,000-600,000 (both Tamils and non-Tamils displaced due to long-term Tamil conflict renewed in 2006) (2006) |
| Sudan |
5,300,000 - 6,200,000 (internal conflict since 1980s; ongoing genocide in Darfur region, IDP registration for return to South Sudan started in 2005) (2006) |
| Syria |
305,000 (most displaced from Golan Heights during 1967 Arab-Israeli War) (2006) |
| Togo |
1,500 (2006) |
| Turkey |
1-1.2 million (fighting 1984-99 between Kurdish PKK and Turkish military; most IDPs in southeastern provinces) (2006) |
| Uganda |
1.2-1.7 million (350,000 IDPs returned in 2006 following ongoing peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda) (2006) |
| Uzbekistan |
3,400 (forced population transfers by government from villages near Tajikistan border) (2006) |
| Zimbabwe |
569,685 (MUGABE-led political violence, human rights violations, land reform, and economic collapse) (2006) |
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