IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for State of Palestine

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) provides daily-updated data on new internal displacements caused by conflict and disaster in the State of Palestine. This dataset offers provisional estimates of displacement flows, representing the most recent available information. The finalized and validated data is published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional conflict and disaster event data.
• Analyze displacement flows for early humanitarian response planning based on the daily update cycle.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock and flow estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near-real-time insights into displacement events.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Focuses on displacement flows, a key metric for crisis response.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provisional and may be subject to revision and double-counting.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers and sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Reports data since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

State of Palestine