UNHCR Myanmar Operational Update, January - March 2024

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

63,925 people received core relief items comprising kitchen sets, blankets and sleeping mats, ensuring their basic needs were met.

27,210 people received shelter support for safe and dignified living conditions while in displacement.

454 people benefited from multi-purpose cash assistance to meet their basic needs.

FORCIBLY DISPLACED AND STATELESS PEOPLE

2,883,400 Internally displaced people (IDP) living in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin,
Shan, Kayin, Kayah and Mon States, and Bago (East), Tanintharyi, Sagaing and Magway Regions (as of 8 April 2024). According to UN sources, an estimated 2.5 million people have been displaced (as of 8 April 2024) due to the resumption and intensification of clashes between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and/or People’s Defense Forces (PDF) after 1 February 2021.

632,789 Estimated Rohingya in Rakhine State, of which some 155,511 are living in displacement camps as well as among the host community since 2012.