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What is counted, and what is documented

The same twenty countries under two evidence regimes. Counted is what IDMC, ACLED and UCDP record — codes 1, 2 and 6, with numbers. Documented is what human rights investigations establish for codes 3, 4 and 7 — real, often large, and absent from every displacement database.

What is counted, and what is documented

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Figures are not comparable. The documented scales come from individual investigations with different scopes, periods and methods. They establish that a cause is real and often large. They must never be summed with IDMC counts or with each other.