IDU: Internal Displacement Event Data for Lesotho

No displacement events were recorded for Lesotho in the 180 days preceding the last update on 2026-03 26. The dataset, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), offers provisional daily updates on new internal displacements caused by conflict and disasters worldwide.

Use Cases

• Monitoring recent conflict or disaster-induced displacement flows based on provisional event data.
• Comparing preliminary displacement estimates with validated annual data from the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).
• Analyzing temporal patterns of new displacements within a rolling 180-day window.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time provisional data.
• Covers a defined 180-day rolling time window for recent events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Limitations

• Data is provisional and subject to double-counting; requires careful preprocessing as noted in the description.
• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• For the specific geography of Lesotho, the dataset currently contains zero recorded events.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers and sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Rolling 180-day period preceding the last update.

Freshness

Updated daily; last metadata update was 2026-03-26.

Geography

Lesotho (though no events were recorded in the specified period).