IDU: Daily Updates on Internal Displacements in Egypt

Daily updated event data on new internal displacements (flows) in Egypt caused by conflict and disasters, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset offers provisional information updated daily, with validated estimates available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD). It covers events reported since the beginning of 2025.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows based on provisional event data.
• Analyze conflict and disaster impact on population movement in Egypt.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD stock and flow estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely provisional information.
• Covers events reported since the beginning of 2025.
• Provided by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

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 for initial assessments.

Time Range

Events reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Egypt