New report by Save the Children International has revealed that crises across the globe displaced about 10.5 million children in 2023, which has likely pushed the number of children displaced globally to more than 50 million, the highest ever with numbers more than doubling since 2010.
The analysis carried out to ascertain how many children were newly displaced from the 10 largest displacement crises in 2023 showed that during the year, an additional 10.5 million children or an average of about 29,000 a day were estimated to be newly displaced inside their own country or had fled to another country, with children in Sudan and Somalia the most affected.
Estimates by the United Nations revealed that people displaced globally had risen to a new record of 114 million people globally, while children make up about 40 per cent of the world’s displaced.
