IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in South Africa

Daily updated provisional data on new internal displacements in South Africa caused by conflict and disaster events, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset focuses on displacement flows and is updated daily, with data reported since the beginning of 2025. Finalized estimates are available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows based on provisional event data.
• Analyze displacement trends from conflict and disasters based on daily updates.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time data.
• Covers displacement events reported since the beginning of 2025.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting.
• 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 or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

South Africa