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People Newly Displaced Today
+16 per minute · since 00:00 UTC
Estimated, not measured
Most displaced people never cross a border, and most who do stay in a neighbouring country. The image of displacement as long-distance migration to wealthy countries describes a small fraction of it.
Estimated people newly displaced since midnight UTC by conflict, persecution and disaster.
Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.
value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC
A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because every signal advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.
Net growth in the forcibly displaced population over a year.
The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.