IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for El Salvador

Conflict and disaster population movement data for El Salvador, updated daily. The dataset provides provisional estimates of new internal displacements from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, with data reported since the beginning of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are published separately in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows based on the daily update frequency mentioned in the description
• Analyze conflict and disaster displacement triggers based on the event data focus
• Compare provisional and validated displacement figures based on the distinction between IDU and GIDD datasets
• Track displacement trends over time based on the time-series nature of the flow data

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time data
• Covers both conflict and disaster displacement events
• Available under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license for open use

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
• 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

Data reported since the beginning of 2025

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15 05:41:17.462355

Geography

El Salvador