IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Afghanistan

Daily provisional data on new internal displacements in Afghanistan tracks flows of people forced from their homes due to conflict and disasters. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre updates this event data daily, providing initial assessments from the start of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on the event-driven, flow-focused nature of the data.
• Analyze the immediate impact of specific conflicts or disasters based on the provisional event assessments.
• Model displacement triggers based on the data's distinction between conflict and disaster causes.
• Support early warning systems based on the daily update frequency and focus on new displacements.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time insights into displacement events.
• Focuses on 'flows' (new displacements), capturing the immediate impact of events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Distinguishes between displacements caused by conflict and those caused by disasters.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provisional and may be subject to double-counting, requiring careful preprocessing.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Event data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last metadata update was 2026-05-15.

Geography

Afghanistan