Data Point: 10th Oct 2023

October 10, 2023

Extreme weather displacement: UNICEF

According to estimates released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), over the last six years, weather-related disasters have forcefully displaced at least 134.1 million people.
- 20,000 children were displaced every day on an average during 2016-2021.
- UNICEF officially United Nations Children’s Fund is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
Storms (21.2 million) and floods (19.7 million) have been the most damaging and accounted for 95 per cent of forced child displacements in this period.

Region with maximum weather-related child displacements: East Asia and the Pacific, followed by South Asia.
- Over 53 per cent (23 million) of the children displaced were in three countries – Philippines (9.7 million), India (6.7 million) and China (6.4 million).

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