Data Attribution & Provider Accreditations
Explicit attribution, open license documentation, and formal academic citations for primary humanitarian data originators.
Humanitarian Purpose & Attribution Charter
All datasets referenced on this observatory remain the intellectual and operational property of their respective originating agencies. We explicitly acknowledge and thank UNHCR, IOM DTM, OCHA HDX, and UN DESA for maintaining open humanitarian data infrastructures under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) standard.
This repository synthesizes these feeds exclusively for non-commercial humanitarian research, public accountability, and policy analysis. We preserve all original source timestamps, dataset snapshot IDs, and licensing envelopes.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Cross-Border Refugees & Registered Asylum Seekers979,846 refugees and 63,747 asylum seekers hosted in Ethiopia
Data collection relies on UNHCR's proGres v4 biometric registration database, camp-level verification exercises, and urban reception center registrations conducted in partnership with Ethiopia's Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS).
“United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugee Data Finder (2023/2024 Year-End Assessment). Geneva: UNHCR Global Data Service. Open Data under CC BY 4.0.”
International Organization for Migration — Displacement Tracking Matrix (IOM DTM)
Internal Displacement (IDPs) & Tracked Returnees3,392,200 IDPs and 1,811,400 returnees across 12 regional states
Collected through key informant interviews with woreda officials, community leaders, and camp managers, triangulated with site visits and physical shelter counts across thousands of displacement sites and returnee villages.
“International Organization for Migration (IOM), Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Ethiopia Site Assessment and Village Assessment Round 37 (August 2024). Addis Ababa: IOM Ethiopia. Open Data under CC BY 4.0.”
United Nations OCHA — Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)
Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) & Inter-Sector NeedsAdministrative Levels 0, 1, and 2 P-codes and Humanitarian Needs Overview indicators
Provides official Common Operational Datasets for administrative boundaries (Adm0 national, Adm1 regional states, and Adm2 zones) and standardized P-code lookups utilized for geographic normalization throughout this observatory.
“United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ethiopia Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) and Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). The Hague: Centre for Humanitarian Data. Open Data under CC BY 4.0.”
United Nations DESA — Population Division
International Migrant Stocks & Global Demographic MatricesBilateral migration corridor flows and foreign-born population stocks
Bilateral matrix of foreign-born and foreign-citizen populations residing in Ethiopia and Ethiopian-born populations residing internationally, derived from national population censuses and demographic surveys.
“United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2020/2024 Revision). International Migrant Stock: By Destination and Origin (United Nations database, POP/DB/MIG/Stock/Rev.2020). New York: United Nations.”
Non-Additive Population Taxonomy Rule
When citing or reproducing data from this observatory, downstream authors must adhere to the international protection principle: IDP, refugee, returnee, and migrant stocks must never be summed into a combined figure. Each population operates under distinct legal definitions, registration mandates, and return statuses. Combining them introduces double-counting and violates scientific reporting integrity.