Poor countries 4 times as likely to have conflict than rich ones
There were 8.4 million refugees in 2005, which is 6 million less than in 1996. The great majority of them were hosted in poor countries, rather than rich countries
There are currently 25 million internally displaced people, 110,000 of which were newly displaced by violence in the first half of 2006. An additional 20 million people are affected by conflict
On average, a person displaced in 2004 first fled conflict in 1990
Conflicts fell by 40% between 1992 and 2004, but around 30 still remain, many of them even after a formal 'peace' deal has been agreed. The great majority of them are in poor countries
Disasters
People are vulnerable to the consequences of disasters largely because they are poor
There has been a five-fold increase in disasters from 1975 to 2005
Vast numbers of people are affected by disasters - 2.54 billion in the decade from 1995 to 2005
The Asian tsunami in 2004 killed 3 to 4 times as many women as men
For every $1 per person spent on the tsunami, a person in the Democratic Republic of Congo conflict received 1 cent
