HDX HAPI: Standardized Global Food Price Indicators and Market Data

Standardized food price indicators sourced from the HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI) to support humanitarian decision-making and market analysis. Maintained by HDX Humanitarian API Data, the records are designed for interoperability across multiple humanitarian sources and were last updated in March 2026. The data includes specific quality metadata, including warnings for corrected data and error flags for incomplete records.

Use Cases

• Analyzing market price fluctuations using standardized food price indicators
• Building automated humanitarian dashboards using HAPI-compliant data structures
• Assessing data reliability by filtering records based on warning and error flags

Strengths

• Standardized indicators via HDX HAPI for seamless interoperability
• High transparency including rows with errors and warnings
• CC-BY-IGO license suitable for intergovernmental and humanitarian use

Limitations

• Contains unusable data rows that must be filtered by the user
• Specific column definitions and row counts are not provided in the primary metadata

Provenance

Source

HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI)

Collection Method

Aggregated and standardized from multiple humanitarian data sources

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Global humanitarian contexts