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Bangladesh Disaster displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Bangladesh: 44,078 disaster-driven internal displacements between 2026-07-01 and 2026-07-31 (IDMC IDU)

Disaster-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, Bangladesh recorded 44,078 disaster-driven internal displacements across 5 events between 1 July and 31 July 2026, with figures deduplicated to one per event. This total is above 9,170, the 90th percentile of the country's own monthly record over the previous 11 months. A mixed-disaster event across multiple districts, reported by the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group, accounted for 38,422 of these displacements, and a landslide in the Rohingya camps of Cox's Bazar accounted for 4,307. Riverbank erosion and erosion events in Sirajganj and Kurigram, reported by local authorities, accounted for the remainder.

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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 month44,078
Events in the month5
Months of history compared11
90th percentile of that history9,170
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 9,170. 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 Bangladesh JSON
key displacement_window:BGD:disaster:2026-07