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Four hundred people a day are displaced in Afghanistan, on average, bringing the total displaced population to 500,000 by January 2012. Such internal displacement is on the rise. Conflict-induced internal displacement increased rapidly in the first half of 2011—the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that nearly 100,000 people were internally displaced between January and June of that year. The number of displaced persons has increased every year since at least 2008.