Guatemala Internal Displacement Updates (IDU): Daily Conflict and Disaster Flows

Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) data provides provisional daily information on new internal displacements in Guatemala caused by conflicts and disasters. The dataset is produced by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and represents initial assessments updated daily since the beginning of 2025. It focuses on displacement flows, with more validated estimates available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows from conflicts based on event data.
• Track provisional displacement numbers from natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding.
• Analyze temporal patterns of new internal displacements for early warning systems.
• Compare initial IDU estimates with finalized GIDD stock and flow data for validation studies.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time provisional data.
• Focuses on displacement flows, a key metric for event response.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Data is available via API for programmatic access.

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

Event data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

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

Geography

Guatemala