HDX HAPI: Affected People Data for Returnee Populations

HDX Humanitarian API provides standardized humanitarian indicators from multiple sources for interoperability. The data facilitates automated workflows and visualizations to support humanitarian decision making. This dataset, last updated 2026-03 26, is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Monitor returnee population trends based on standardized humanitarian indicators.
• Build automated data pipelines for crisis response based on interoperable API data.
• Create dashboards for humanitarian decision-making based on indicator visualizations.
• Assess data quality and corrections for humanitarian reporting based on included warnings.

Strengths

• Data is standardized for interoperability from multiple sources.
• Includes rows with warnings for transparency on data corrections.
• Licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to humanitarian reporting.

Provenance

Source

HDX Humanitarian API (hapi.humdata.org)

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple humanitarian data sources via a standardized API.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 11:49:49.527841.

Geography

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