IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Ghana

Daily updated event data on new internal displacements in Ghana caused by conflict and disaster, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset contains provisional information on displacement flows, updated daily since the beginning of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are available in the separate annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional conflict and disaster event data.
• Analyze displacement flows for early warning and humanitarian response planning.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time insights into displacement events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Covers both conflict and disaster-induced displacement flows.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.
• 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 preliminary estimates from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

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

Geography

Ghana