Zambia Internal Displacements Updates: Daily Conflict and Disaster Flows

IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates (IDU) dataset provides provisional daily data on new internal displacements in Zambia caused by conflicts and disasters. It offers initial assessments of displacement flows, representing the most recent available information updated daily. The finalized and validated estimates are published separately in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on event data for conflict and disaster alerts.
• Analyze provisional displacement flows for early humanitarian needs assessments.
• Cross-reference preliminary IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock figures for trend validation.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely event-level data.
• Focuses on displacement flows (new movements), a key metric for crisis response.
• Sourced from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a leading authority on displacement data.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.
• 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

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last recorded update was 2026-05-15.

Geography

Zambia