Rwanda Internal Displacements: New Displacement Incidents and IDP Stock

Annual estimates of internal displacement in Rwanda, tracking both the stock of people living in displacement at year-end and new displacement incidents. The data is maintained by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and follows the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-18.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual trends in new displacement incidents based on the 'New Displacement' metric.
• Analyzing the long-term stock of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at year-end.
• Correlating displacement flows with reported events of conflict, violence, or natural disasters.
• Comparing displacement figures across different years to assess the scale of humanitarian crises.

Strengths

• Data is validated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Tracks two distinct metrics: population stock and new displacement incidents.
• Follows the standardized 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

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/temporal bias inherent to the source.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) via the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Collection Method

Comprehensive, validated annual estimates.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 23:36:36.689073; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rwanda