Libya: new displacements due to conflicts

Around 215 thousand people were internally displaced due to violence and conflicts in Libya in 2019. Eight years before, in 2011, the Libyan war had forced nearly 500 thousand people to leave their homes, yet remaining within the country's borders. In the period examined, Libya was among the countries with the highest prevalence of displacement caused by conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Number of new people internally displaced due to conflicts in Libya from 2011 to 2019 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in thousands
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Release date

February 2021

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Region

Libya

Survey time period

2011 to 2019

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide data for 2012 and 2013.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are "persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border” (United Nation's Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998).

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