IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for Maldives

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) provides the IDU dataset, which contains provisional daily updates on new internal displacements (flows) in Maldives caused by conflict and disaster. The data offers initial assessments and is updated daily, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD). The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO and was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional event data.
• Analyze conflict or disaster impacts on population movements based on flow data.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD stock and flow estimates.
• Model displacement triggers based on event types and temporal patterns.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time insights.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Focuses on new displacement flows, a key metric for event analysis.

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 revision and double-counting.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Reports from the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily.

Geography

Maldives