Bahamas Internal Displacement Data: New Displacements and IDP Stock

Annual estimates of internal displacement in the Bahamas, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The data tracks two primary metrics: the stock of people living in displacement at year-end and the flow of new displacement incidents. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2026, and is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Modeling displacement risk based on conflict and disaster triggers mentioned in the description
• Analyzing long-term trends in internal displacement stock figures
• Assessing the annual scale of new displacement incidents for resource allocation
• Comparing displacement figures against other humanitarian indicators for the region

Strengths

• Data is validated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
• Distinguishes between population stock and new displacement flows, a key methodological feature
• Uses a standardized definition aligned with the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source platform

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Annual estimates compiled and validated as part of the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 23:31:18.921051; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bahamas