IDU: Internal Displacement Event Data for Sao Tome and Principe

No displacement flows were recorded for Sao Tome and Principe in the 180 days prior to the dataset's last update. The Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides provisional, daily-updated event data on new internal displacements caused by conflict and disasters. It offers initial assessments over a rolling 180-day period, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily new displacement events based on provisional information.
• Analyze displacement trends over a 180-day rolling window based on event data.
• Compare provisional IDU estimates with validated annual GIDD stock and flow data.
• Track conflict and disaster-induced internal displacement for specific countries.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely provisional data.
• Covers a rolling 180-day time period for recent events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Data is accessible via API for programmatic use.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Rolling 180-day period prior to update.

Freshness

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

Geography

Sao Tome and Principe