IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for Timor-Leste

The IDU dataset from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre provides provisional daily updates on new internal displacements in Timor-Leste. It focuses on displacement flows resulting from conflict and disaster events, with data aggregated from various sources. The dataset is updated daily and represents the most recent available information, with validated estimates later published in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on provisional conflict and disaster event data.
• Analyze displacement flows for early warning and humanitarian needs assessment.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock and flow estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely provisional data.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
• Covers both conflict and disaster-induced displacement flows.
• Available via API with documented access and structure.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and may require 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 providing initial assessments.

Time Range

Event data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Timor-Leste.