internally displaced person

English

Noun

internally displaced person (plural internally displaced persons or internally displaced people)

1. Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.

   Synonyms: (initialism) IDP, internal refugee

   • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.

Related terms

• internal displacement
• internally displaced

 

Translations

someone who is forced to flee home but remains within his or her country's borders

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: məcburi köçkün
• Catalan: desplaçat intern m, desplaçada interna f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國內流離失所者／国内流离失所者 (guónèi liúlíshīsuǒzhě)

• Danish: internt fordreven person c
• Esperanto: Interne dislokita persono
• Finnish: maan sisäinen pakolainen
• French: déplacé interne
• Georgian: იძულებით გადაადგილებული პირი (iʒulebit gadaadgilebuli ṗiri), დევნილი (devnili)
• German: Binnenflüchtling (de) m
• Hungarian: belső menekült
• Irish: duine easáitithe de thír m
• Malay: orang pelarian dalaman
• Polish: uchodźstwo wewnętrzne
• Portuguese: deslocado interno m, deslocada interna f, pessoa deslocada internamente f
• Russian: вну́тренне перемещё́нное лицо́ n (vnútrenne peremeščónnoje licó)
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: desplazado interno m
• Ukrainian: вну́трішньо перемі́щена осо́ба (uk) f (vnútrišnʹo peremíščena osóba), ВПО (uk) (VPO)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• refugee