Internally displaced people (IDP) are forced to leave their homes, but manage to stay somewhere else within their countries. Whereas refugees are forced to leave their homes as well as their countries. What does it feel like to leave everything behind you grew up with, everything you love and know, and to start all over in a place where you might not be able to communicate with other people, to earn money to buy your own food, and where people only like people of their own kind and look?
'The Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Indicator measures the pressure upon states caused by the forced displacement of large communities as a result of social, political, environmental or other causes, measuring displacement within countries, as well as refugee flows into others. The indicator measures refugees by country of Asylum, recognizing that population inflows can put additional pressure on public services, and can sometimes create broader humanitarian and security challenges for the receiving state, if that state does not have the absorption capacity and adequate resources. The Indicator also measures the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and Refugees by country of origin, which signifies internal state pressures as a result of violence, environmental or other factors such as health epidemics. These measures are considered within the context of the state’s population (per capita) and human development trajectory, and over time (year on year spikes), recognizing that some IDPs or refugees for example, may have been displaced for long periods of time.'