2026-05-08 · people displaced by disasters (annual avg)
Most displacement is still weather — not yet 'climate refugee' labels
Storms and floods displace millions yearly. Legal climate refugee status barely exists.
Climate grids hide gigatonnes behind identical squares — the gradient is political once you see the cell count. This grid divides disaster displacement (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Weather-related displacement and Conflict + other — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 32 thousand people displaced by disasters (annual avg) (0.1% of disaster displacement) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from IDMC displacement put Weather-related displacement at 90% of disaster displacement and Conflict + other at 10% — about 32 million people displaced by disasters (annual avg) in this edition's rounding.
IDMC disaster displacement ~90% weather-related.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-05-08-climate-migrants