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+118 per minute · since 00:00 UTC
This is a live, continuously changing estimate. It isn't printed here because a figure on paper would be wrong the moment you read it — see the current value at https://earthnow.app/signal/internal-displacements-today.
Estimated, not measured
Most displaced people never cross a border, and most who do stay in a neighbouring country. The image of displacement as long-distance migration to wealthy countries describes a small fraction of it.
Estimated internal displacements since midnight UTC, driven by conflict, violence and disaster. IDMC counts movements rather than people: someone displaced twice in a year appears twice.
Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.
value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC
A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because the figure advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.
62.2 million internal displacements recorded across 146 countries in 2025. Movements, not people — one person displaced twice counts twice. Conflict and violence caused 32.3 million of them, more than disasters for the first time on record.
The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.
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