IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in South Sudan

Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) provide provisional data on new internal displacements in South Sudan caused by conflict and disasters. The dataset is updated daily by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and focuses on displacement flows. It offers initial assessments from the beginning of 2025, with more validated estimates available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement flows based on the event-driven, provisional data structure.
• Analyze conflict and disaster impacts on population movement based on the described cause categories.
• Provide early insights for humanitarian response based on the daily update frequency.
• Compare provisional estimates with validated annual stock data based on the link to the GIDD.

Strengths

• Updated daily, offering near-real-time data on new displacements.
• Provisional data covers events from the beginning of 2025.
• Provided by the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.
• 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

From the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

South Sudan