A report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre revealed that a global record of 71.1 million people were internally displaced due to conflict or natural disasters in 2022, with 5.9 million of those being forced to move in Ukraine alone because of Russia’s invasion. The number of people displaced due to disasters like floods and famine reached 8.7 million, which was up by 45 percent from the previous year. The report did not include those who left their countries. Conflict and natural disasters continued to displace people in 2023, with 700,000 people already displaced by the conflict in Sudan. The La Nina weather phenomenon, which caused floods in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil, and drought in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, was noted as a major factor in disaster displacement. Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, referred to 2022 as “displacement on a scale never seen before.”