IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for Madagascar

Conflict and disaster population movement data for Madagascar, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset offers provisional, daily-updated estimates of new internal displacements (flows) reported since the beginning of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are published separately in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional flow data.
• Analyze displacement triggers based on conflict and disaster event data.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD stock estimates.
• Model displacement risk based on event frequency and location.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provisional and may be subject to double-counting, requiring preprocessing per the source documentation.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Events reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Madagascar