Internal Displacement in Myanmar

This bar graph shows the amount of new internally displaced people every year, caused by domestic conflict and violence, over the course of 13 years. It is important to align this graph with key moments of Burmese political history. In 2012, the Democratic Party won the election and controlled much of the nation – this correlates to a drop-off in internally displaced people. However, when the Democratic Party won in 2020, the party’s landslide victory caused an opposition military coup to occur. This correlates with the surge in 2021 of displaced people, as when the military took government control, political dissidents were persecuted, forced into hiding, and struggled to leave their nation so were forced to internal displacement.