IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Papua New Guinea

Conflict and disaster population movement data for Papua New Guinea, updated daily. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides provisional estimates of new internal displacements, focusing on flows rather than total stocks. This dataset offers initial assessments reported since the beginning of 2025.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on conflict and disaster events mentioned in the description
• Analyze provisional displacement flows for early warning and response planning
• Compare preliminary IDU data with finalized annual GIDD stock and flow estimates

Strengths

• Updated daily for timely insights
• Covers both conflict and disaster-induced displacement
• Provided by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires validation against the annual GIDD
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers and sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Reports from the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Papua New Guinea.