Greenland Internal Displacement: New Displacement Incidents and IDP Stocks

Annual estimates of internal displacement in Greenland, tracking both the stock of people living in displacement at year-end and the flow of new displacement incidents. The data is maintained by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and follows the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling displacement trends over time based on annual estimates.
• Analyzing the impact of conflict or disasters on population movement based on displacement incident data.
• Estimating humanitarian resource needs based on the stock of internally displaced persons.
• Comparing displacement flows versus stocks to understand the nature of displacement crises.

Strengths

• Data is validated and maintained by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Tracks two distinct metrics: population stock and new displacement incidents.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for open use with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-03-18).

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Comprehensive, validated annual estimates from the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 23:33:15.370082

Geography

Greenland