African countries with the most displaced people 2022

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the African country with the highest number of internally displaced persons, those forced to leave their house but remain within their country's borders. In 2022, the Democratic Republic on the Congo counted over 5.5 million IDPs, in a population of around 90 million people. Sudan had more than 3.5 million displaced persons, while Nigeria had about 3.3 million.

African countries with the largest number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as of 2022 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of internally displaced persons in thousands
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	5,541
Sudan	3,553
Nigeria	3,287
Somalia	2,968
Ethiopia	2,730
Burkina Faso	1,882
South Sudan	1,475
Mozambique	1,029
Cameroon	989
Central African Rep.	516
Chad	381
Mali	380
Niger	377
Libya	162

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Release date

August 2023

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Countries with less than 100,000 people displaced were not included.
Figures were rounded.

The source does not provide a publication date. The release date is therefore the date the statistic was accessed.

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