'No country is immune to disaster displacement': Natural disasters trigger 26.4 million displacements in 2023

Stuart Stone
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New research confirms third highest number of people on record were displaced by floods, storms, wildfires and earthquakes last year

Floods, storms, earthquakes, wildfires, and other natural disasters displaced 26.4 million people in 2023, the third highest annual total in the past 10 years according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring...

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