IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in the Philippines

The IDU dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides daily provisional data on new internal displacements in the Philippines caused by conflict and disasters. It offers initial assessments of displacement flows, updated daily with information aggregated from various sources. Finalized and validated estimates are later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Track daily displacement flows based on the event-driven, provisional data structure.
• Analyze conflict-induced displacement patterns based on the description of conflict as a cause.
• Model disaster displacement triggers based on the mention of natural and human-made disasters.
• Assess provisional displacement estimates for early warning based on the daily update cycle.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time data on new displacements.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Covers both conflict and disaster-induced displacement events.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.
• 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

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last metadata update was 2026-05-15.

Geography

Philippines