Democratic Republic of the Congo - Internal Displacements Updates (IDU)

Democratic Republic of the Congo conflict and disaster population movement data provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The dataset offers provisional daily updates on new internal displacements, focusing on flows reported since the beginning of 2025. It is updated daily and licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO.

Use Cases

• Track daily displacement flows based on the event-driven, provisional data structure.
• Analyze conflict and disaster triggers for population movement based on the described cause categories.
• Model displacement trends over time based on the daily update frequency and time-series nature.
• Compare provisional IDU estimates with validated annual GIDD data based on the described two-tier system.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time data on displacement events.
• Focuses on 'flows' (new displacements), a key metric for crisis response.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO for open use.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires validation against the annual GIDD database.
• 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

Aggregated from various publishers and sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Reports displacements since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

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

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo