Section: IDP Population Figures

Sub-section: Number of IDPs, disaggregated by age and sex where data are available

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General

As of July 2010, there were around 170,000 IDPs in eastern Chad (OCHA, 4 June 2010). IDPs live in 38 camps with varying levels of humanitarian assistance, or are being supported by host communities in remote areas with little to no humanitarian assistance (UNSC, 29 April 2010). The majority of IDPs lack means of sustaining themselves, making humanitarian assistance vital (OCHA, 30 November 2009).

The highest number of IDPs reported to date by the UN was 185,000 in mid-2008 (OCHA, 9 June 2008). These figures translate roughly into one in five of the local population in eastern Chad being internally displaced (Oxfam, April 2009). No new internal displacements were reported in 2009 or to date in 2010.

Chad also hosts 270,000 Sudanese refugees in 12 camps along the eastern border with Sudan, and 81,000 Central African refugees in 11 camps along the southern border with CAR (UNHCR, 2010).

Since 2007, UNHCR and its partners have conducted several profiling exercises to determine the number and location of IDPs and provide disaggregated date on their age, sex, ethnicity, and village of origin. A 2008 profiling exercise reported that 60 per cent of IDPs surveyed were women between the ages of 15 and 40 and that 95% of IDPs live in the Department of Dar Sila (UNHCR, November 2008). The 2009 consolidated humanitarian appeal for Chad reported 78,519 males and 89,948 females among the IDP population (OCHA, 30 November 2009).

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