Libya — Migrant Report 44 (September - October 2022)

IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme identified a total of 683,813 migrants from over 42 nationalities in the 100 Libyan municipalities during Round 44 of data collection (September - October 2022). The number of migrants in Libya has continued to increase slightly compared to the previous reporting period (679,974 migrants, Round 43, July – August 2022) in line with a trend that started at the beginning of 2021. Prior to 2021 the number of migrants in Libya had been declining following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The number of migrants in Libya identified during Round 44 is also higher than the number of migrants for the corresponding period in 2019 (654,081 migrants, Round 28, October - November 2019).