India was third after the Philippines and China, in absolute numbers last year, for displacements due to disasters both weather and hazard-related.

India is among top three countries after the Philippines and China where large number of people were forced to flee their homes due to disasters as 19.3 million people were displaced globally last year alone, a Norway-based global humanitarian group’s report said on Monday.

In the last seven years between 2008 to 2014, an estimated one person every second has been displaced by a disaster, according to Global Estimates 2015 – People Displaced by Disasters, a report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).