IDMC's GRID 2026 release places the world's internally displaced population at 82.2 million at the end of 2025 — down 1.5% from 2024's record 83.5 million. This is the first year-over-year decline in the GIDD series, which IDMC has tracked since 2016.
An integrated analysis of systematic attacks on critical civilian energy infrastructure, facility-level operational status, and the humanitarian winter response for the 2025–2026 heating season — the most severe since the full-scale invasion of February 2022.