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Description
GLIDE Initiative's Nigeria - GLIDE Disaster Events dataset provides globally unique identifiers (GLIDEnumbers) for disaster events. The data is used by institutions including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, UNDP, WMO, IFRC, FAO, the European Commission, and CRED. It was last updated on 2026-06-23.
Use Cases
Cross-reference disaster reports from different agencies based on the common GLIDEnumber identifier.
Map disaster event locations and timelines based on the geospatial (GEOJSON) format.
Build a searchable database of Nigerian disaster events based on the structured disaster records.
Strengths
Data uses a globally recognized standard (GLIDEnumber) for interoperability.
Adopted by major international organizations including UN agencies and the European Commission.
Available in structured formats (CSV, GEOJSON) suitable for analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the HDX platform.
Provenance
Source
GLIDE Initiative
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-23 23:55:30.771579; freshness should be verified.