Iraq — Displacement Report 32 (November 2015)

During this round, The number of identified IDPs has decreased by 1%, i.e. 25,560 individuals. This decrease is mainly due to ongoing return movements from the governorates of Kirkuk and Salah al-Din. Particularly, the governorates of Kirkuk and Salah al-Din recorded a remarkable decrease (20,244 and 12,558 individuals respectively). Returnees increased by 9%, i.e. 37,704 individuals. At the national level, The governorates hosting the largest IDP populations remain Anbar, Baghdad, and Dahuk with a total of 1,559,742 individuals. A total of 77% of the displaced population (2,440,176 individuals) have fled from three governorates only, namely Anbar, Ninewa and Salah al-Din. From January 2014 to 5 November 2015, the DTM identified 3,181,176 internally displaced individuals (530,196 families), dispersed across 103 districts and 3,542 locations in Iraq. Considering the available information and the DTM methodology, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) maintains the planning figures for the humanitarian response at 3.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs).