
According to the newly published statistics from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 11 million people in the United States were displaced due to natural disasters last year. This is the largest number of people of any country; worldwide, 46 million people were displaced internally due to a natural disaster. Cyclones — particularly Hurricanes Helene and Milton — were responsible for over half of all such displacements across the world, with flooding responsible for another 42 percent. Those displacements can last a long time: as of the end of 2024, 9.8 million people in the world were still living in displacement from disasters, an increase of 29 percent from 2023.
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