HDX HAPI: Standardized Food Security and Nutrition Indicators

Standardized food security and nutrition indicators aggregated from multiple humanitarian sources via the HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI). Maintained by the HDX Humanitarian API Data organization, the records include data quality flags and were last updated in March 2026. The data is formatted for interoperability to support automated humanitarian decision-making workflows.

Use Cases

• Monitoring global food security trends using standardized HAPI indicators
• Developing automated humanitarian visualizations based on multi-source nutrition data
• Auditing data quality in humanitarian reporting by analyzing the distribution of error and warning flags

Strengths

• Standardized indicator format for seamless interoperability between different humanitarian sources
• Includes transparency metadata through explicit warning and error flags
• CC-BY license allows for broad reuse in humanitarian research

Limitations

• Specific column definitions and row counts are not detailed in the source metadata
• Contains unusable records marked with errors that must be filtered before analysis

Provenance

Source

HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI)

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple humanitarian organizations and sources

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Global humanitarian contexts