U.S. Virgin Islands Internal Displacement Data: New Displacements and IDP Stock

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are defined by the 1998 Guiding Principles as people forced to flee their homes but not cross an international border. The Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD) provides validated annual estimates of internal displacement, tracking both the year-end stock of IDPs and the flow of new displacement incidents. This dataset, maintained by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), focuses specifically on the United States Virgin Islands.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term displacement trends based on validated annual stock figures.
• Analyzing the frequency of new displacement incidents (flows) separate from individual people counts.
• Assessing the impact of conflict, violence, or natural disasters on internal displacement in a specific territory.

Strengths

• Data is validated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Tracks two distinct metrics: population stock and new displacement flows.
• License is CC-BY-3.0-IGO, allowing for open use with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the source platform.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Annual estimates compiled and validated for the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 23:38:09.278717; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States Virgin Islands