IDU: Daily Updates on Conflict and Disaster Displacements in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso conflict and disaster population movement data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The dataset provides provisional daily updates on new internal displacements, focusing on flows reported since the beginning of 2025. It is sourced from initial assessments and various publishers, with final validated estimates available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Track displacement trends over time based on daily updates
• Analyze the impact of conflict events on population flows based on event data
• Model displacement drivers based on provisional information from various sources
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD estimates

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time data
• Focuses on displacement flows, capturing new events
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Available via API for programmatic access

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires preprocessing to avoid double-counting
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Initial assessments aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Reports from the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

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

Geography

Burkina Faso.