Vietnam Internal Displacement Data: New Displacements and IDP Stock

Annual estimates of internal displacement in Vietnam, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset tracks two primary metrics: the stock of people living in displacement at year-end and the flow of new displacement incidents, which may count multiple displacements per person. Data is validated and maintained according to the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term displacement trends based on annual stock figures.
• Analyzing the immediate impact of conflict or disasters based on new displacement incidents.
• Comparing displacement drivers (conflict vs. natural disasters) using the dataset's categorization.
• Validating displacement estimates for Vietnam against other sources using the IDMC's methodology.

Strengths

• Data is validated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Distinguishes between population stock and flow metrics, accounting for multiple displacements.
• 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.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Comprehensive, validated annual estimates from the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 23:38:11.544132; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Vietnam