IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Ecuador

The IDU dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides provisional daily updates on new internal displacements in Ecuador caused by conflict and disaster. It contains event data representing flows of displaced persons, updated daily with initial assessments from various sources. The final validated estimates are published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on event data updates
• Analyze displacement triggers based on conflict and disaster event types
• Compare provisional flow data with validated annual stock data

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time data
• Focuses on new displacement flows, a key metric for crisis response
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful 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

Aggregated from various publishers or sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Ecuador