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Philippines Conflict displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Philippines: 19,625 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, between 1 August and 31 August 2026 the Philippines recorded 19,625 conflict-driven internal displacements, all attributed to 1 event. This figure is above the 90th percentile of the country's own monthly record over the previous 17 months, which stands at 16,348. IDMC records the event as a non-international armed conflict between non-state armed groups in BARMM (Nabalawag), with displacement dated 7 August 2026 and figures drawn from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC).

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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 month19,625
Events in the month1
Months of history compared17
90th percentile of that history16,348
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 16,348. Fired on: history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Philippines JSON
key displacement_window:PHL:conflict:2026-08