Lao PDR IDP Figures by Administrative Level from IOM DTM

Aggregated internally displaced persons (IDP) figures for the Lao People's Democratic Republic provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) via their Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) API. The data provides non-sensitive displacement statistics at the country, Admin 1 (provinces), and Admin 2 (districts) levels as of March 2026. It is designed for humanitarian and academic use to track displacement trends without compromising individual privacy.

Use Cases

• Mapping IDP figures across Admin 1 and Admin 2 boundaries for humanitarian resource allocation
• Trend analysis of displacement related to conflict-violence tags over time
• Cross-referencing subnational IDP counts with local infrastructure data for impact assessment

Strengths

• Sourced from the official IOM DTM API
• Provides subnational granularity at Admin 1 and Admin 2 levels
• Standardized for humanitarian interoperability via HDX

Limitations

• Aggregated data only to protect sensitivity, preventing individual-level analysis
• Specific column headers and row counts are not explicitly defined in the metadata
• Geographic scope is limited strictly to Lao PDR

Provenance

Source

International Organization for Migration (IOM) DTM API

Collection Method

Surveyed and aggregated via the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) framework

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026

Geography

Lao People's Democratic Republic