IDU: Internal Displacement Updates for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset provides provisional event data on new internal displacements caused by conflict and disaster. It focuses on flows over a 180-day period and is updated daily. The dataset for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines currently contains no recorded displacement events.

Use Cases

• Monitor new displacement flows based on the 180-day event window mentioned in the description.
• Analyze conflict and disaster triggers for internal displacement based on the event data concept.
• Compare provisional IDU estimates with validated GIDD stock data as referenced in the documentation.
• Assess data gaps for specific countries like Saint Vincent and the Grenadines where no recent flows are recorded.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, providing near-real-time provisional information.
• Covers a defined 180-day time period for recent displacement flows.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines contains no recorded events for the last 180 days.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Preliminary estimates aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Last 180 days

Freshness

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

Geography

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines