IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) provides daily provisional data on new internal displacements (flows) caused by conflict and disaster for Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. The IDU dataset offers initial assessments of displacements reported since the beginning of 2025, updated daily with information from various sources. Finalized and validated estimates are later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional event data.
• Analyze conflict or disaster impact on population flows based on displacement cause.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated GIDD stock estimates for longitudinal studies.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, providing near-real-time insights.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Covers a specific geographic region (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is provisional and may be superseded by validated annual estimates.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Reports displacements from the beginning of 2025 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15 05:41:12.785039.

Geography

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.