IDU: Provisional Internal Displacement Event Data for Palau

No new displacement flows were recorded for Palau in the 180 days preceding the 2026-03 26 update. The Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), offers provisional daily event data on new internal displacements caused by conflicts and disasters. It represents the most recent available information over a rolling 180-day period, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor near-real-time conflict and disaster displacement flows based on the daily update cycle.
• Analyze provisional displacement trends over a 180-day period for early insights.
• Compare initial event data with finalized annual stock and flow estimates from the GIDD.
• Track displacement events in specific countries, such as Palau, based on the geographic focus.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing a near-real-time view of displacement events.
• Covers a rolling 180-day period for recent provisional data.
• Produced by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Available via API with documented specifications for programmatic access.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is provisional and may require preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the API documentation.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Rolling 180-day period preceding the daily update.

Freshness

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

Geography

Palau (country-specific), though the dataset covers global events.