How many people are displaced in Haiti?
About 1.47 million people were internally displaced in Haiti in May 2026, according to IOM.
Updated 7 June 2026.
Definition and limits
The figure is the stock of internally displaced people present at the time of an IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix round. IOM builds it from key-informant assessments at site and commune level, not from a registration of individuals, so it is an estimate. The count covers only people still displaced at that round. Between rounds it moves with returns as well as with new displacement, so successive rounds do not add together. Rounds before September 2022 measured earthquake displacement. IOM's event-tracking series stopped in December 2024.
Source: IOM, Displacement Situation in Haiti, Round 13, May 2026People internally displaced, IOM DTM rounds
people · September 2022 to May 2026 · IOM, Displacement Tracking Matrix
Data
| Period | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | 24,212 people | observed |
| November 2022 | 194,658 people | observed |
| March 2023 | 127,977 people | observed |
| November 2023 | 197,999 people | observed |
| March 2024 | 362,551 people | observed |
| May 2024 | 578,074 people | observed |
| September 2024 | 702,973 people | observed |
| December 2024 | 1.04 million people | observed |
| June 2025 | 1.29 million people | observed |
| September 2025 | 1.41 million people | observed |
| December 2025 | 1.45 million people | observed |
| May 2026 | 1.47 million people | observed |
From the reports
- Displacement reached 1,466,862 people in May 2026, about 12 percent of the population and 1 percent above the December 2025 round, which recorded 1,450,254. Source: IOM, Displacement Situation in Haiti, Round 13, May 2026
- Women and girls are 54 percent of displaced people and children 51 percent in the May 2026 round. Adults are the majority inside sites and children outside them, because conditions in the sites lead many families to send children to relatives in the provinces. Source: IOM, Displacement Situation in Haiti, Round 13, May 2026, p. 8
- Displacement in the Centre department fell from nearly 200,000 people in September 2025 to 146,739 in May 2026, a 26 percent decrease driven by returns. Between the December 2025 and May 2026 rounds the Centre fell 11 percent and the Ouest outside metropolitan Port-au-Prince rose 11 percent. Source: IOM, Displacement Situation in Haiti, Round 13, May 2026
- A 2026 survey of 114 displaced women in five Port-au-Prince sites found that 95.6 percent considered their site insecure, 30.7 percent had experienced physical or sexual violence inside it, and 99.1 percent had no income. Source: Mercy Corps, Displacement, Gendered Harm, and the Normalization of Crisis in Port-au-Prince, 2026
Sources and data
- Internally displaced people, IOM, Displacement Tracking Matrix, November 2010 to May 2026, people. JSON
- New conflict-displacement events, IOM, DTM Event Tracking Tool, January 2023 to December 2024, people. JSON
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