Internal displacement in Latin America hit 1.6 million new cases in 2025, as criminal violence uproots families and quietly redraws the regions map.
LATIN AMERICA · SECURITY
Key Facts
—The headline: Latin America and the Caribbean recorded 1.6 million new violence-driven internal displacements in 2025, per the IDMC.
—The trend: The figure has climbed from 700,000 in 2022 to 800,000 in 2023, around 1.5 million in 2024, and 1.6 million last year.
—The concentration: The IDMC says 87 percent of all displacement caused by criminal violence worldwide was recorded in the Americas.
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