IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Niger

Daily updated event data on new internal displacements in Niger caused by conflicts and disasters, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Provisional information is aggregated from various sources and updated daily, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database. The dataset focuses on displacement flows reported since the beginning of 2025.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on the daily update schedule mentioned in the description.
• Analyze conflict and disaster impacts on population flows based on the event data focus.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD stock estimates based on the described relationship between the datasets.
• Assess displacement drivers based on the description of causes including armed conflict, violence, and disasters.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely provisional information.
• Covers displacement events reported since the beginning of 2025.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

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 require preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Initial assessments aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Events reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Niger