PRISM Alerts · Myanmar · Alert 20
Myanmar Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Myanmar: 51,200 conflict-driven internal displacements between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-31 (IDMC IDU)

Conflict-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, 51,200 conflict-driven internal displacements were recorded in Myanmar across 8 events between 1 August and 31 August 2026. The alert was triggered because this figure exceeded the fixed threshold of 50,000 for a calendar month, and it is equal to the 90th percentile of the country's own monthly record over the previous 11 months. The largest entries, all sourced to UNHCR Myanmar, were 19,100 in Chin State on 3 August, 10,400 in Kachin State on 3 August, 9,500 in Bago Region (East and West) on 31 August, 4,500 in Kachin State on 31 August and 3,000 in Tanintharyi Region on 10 August.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31
Displacement in the month51,200
Events in the month8
Months of history compared11
90th percentile of that history51,200
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 51,200. Fired on: abs_floor.
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:2026-08