IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in China from Conflict and Disaster

China-focused data on new internal displacements caused by conflicts and disasters, representing daily flows. The dataset is produced by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and provides provisional information updated daily since the beginning of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are published separately in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional event data mentioned in the description
• Analyze displacement drivers based on conflict and disaster event types described
• Compare provisional daily flow estimates with annual validated stock data from the GIDD

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time data
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
• Covers events reported since the beginning of 2025

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 may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the collection methodology

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources providing initial assessments

Time Range

Events reported since the beginning of 2025

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15 05:38:30.210785

Geography

China