PRISM Alerts · Myanmar · Alert 19
Myanmar Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Myanmar: 214,700 conflict-driven internal displacements between 2026-07-01 and 2026-07-31 (IDMC IDU)

Conflict-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, 214,700 conflict-driven internal displacements were recorded in Myanmar between 1 and 31 July 2026, across 9 reported events. This total was above the absolute floor of 50,000 and above the 90th percentile of Myanmar's own monthly record over the previous 10 months, which stood at 41,840. The largest figure in the evidence is 140,500 displacements recorded on 13 July in connection with the non-international armed conflict in Magway Region, sourced to UNHCR Myanmar, which also reported 35,300 on 27 July and 15,800 on 6 July for the same event.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
Displacement in the month214,700
Events in the month9
Months of history compared10
90th percentile of that history41,840
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 41,840. Fired on: abs_floor, history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Myanmar JSON
key displacement_window:MMR:conflict:2026-07