HDX Humanitarian API provides standardized humanitarian indicators designed for interoperability from multiple sources. The data facilitates automated workflows and visualizations to support humanitarian decision making. Rows with warnings are considered complete, while rows with errors are included for transparency.
Use Cases
- Build automated humanitarian workflows based on standardized indicators
- Create visualizations for humanitarian decision making based on interoperable data
- Analyze trends in refugee populations based on aggregated humanitarian data
Strengths
- Data is standardized for interoperability from multiple sources
- Rows with warnings are considered complete and available via API
- Rows with errors are included for transparency
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- HDX Humanitarian API Data
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from multiple sources via the HDX Humanitarian API
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-26 11:49:47.971762; freshness should be verified