IDU: Internal Displacement Updates for Serbia (Event Data)

The Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) provides provisional event data on new internal displacements caused by conflicts and disasters. It represents the most recent information over a 180-day period and is updated daily. For Serbia, no displacement flows were recorded in the last 180 days as of the 2026-03-26 update.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily new displacement flows based on the event-driven, provisional data structure.
• Analyze conflict and disaster triggers for internal displacement based on the dataset's cause categorization.
• Compare provisional event data with validated annual stock estimates from the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time provisional data.
• Covers a rolling 180-day time window for recent events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the API documentation.
• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• For Serbia, the dataset currently contains no recorded displacement events.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Initial assessments aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Rolling 180-day period.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-03-26.

Geography

Serbia