IDU: Daily Updates on New Internal Displacements from Conflict and Disaster

No displacement data was recorded for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba in the last 180 days. The Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides provisional daily event data on new internal displacements over a 180-day period. It offers initial assessments of flows (new displacements) from conflicts and disasters, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor near-real-time displacement trends based on daily updates mentioned in the description
• Analyze provisional conflict and disaster displacement flows based on the 180-day event data
• Compare preliminary IDU estimates with validated GIDD stock data for data validation studies

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely provisional information
• Covers a rolling 180-day time period for recent events
• Data is provided by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data is provisional and may require preprocessing to avoid double-counting as noted in the description

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Preliminary estimates aggregated from various publishers or sources, updated daily

Time Range

Rolling 180-day period

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 11:21:51.099110; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (specific location), with data likely covering global events as per the source organization's mandate