Humanitarian Data Explorer

Discover open datasets from the world's leading humanitarian organizations.13 sources, 52,992+ datasets, all free.

13
Data Sources
52,992+
Datasets
250+
Countries

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Data Sources (13)

Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

UN OCHA
20,000+

The flagship humanitarian data platform, hosting datasets across 250+ locations. Covers population, displacement, food security, conflict, health, boundaries, and coordination data.

CSVXLSXJSONGeoJSONShapefiles
Update: Daily to annual
Coverage: 250+ countries & territories
API: https://data.humdata.org/api/3/action/
🏥 Health🏃 Displacement🌾 Food Security⚔️ Conflict🌍 Climate

World Bank Open Data

World Bank
3,000+ indicators

Over 3,000 development indicators across 200+ countries including poverty, economics, education, health, and infrastructure.

CSVXMLExcel
Update: Quarterly
Coverage: 200+ countries
API: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/
📈 Development🏥 Health

Global Health Observatory (GHO)

WHO
2,000+ indicators

2,000+ health indicators: mortality, disease burden, immunization, health workforce, WASH, air quality, and universal health coverage.

CSVJSONXML
Update: Weekly to annual
Coverage: 194 member states
API: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/
🏥 Health

UNICEF Data Warehouse

UNICEF
500+ indicators

Child-focused indicators: under-5 mortality, nutrition, immunization, birth registration, child labor, education, and WASH in schools.

CSVExcelSPSS/Stata
Update: Annual
Coverage: 190+ countries
🏥 Health📈 Development

HungerMap LIVE

WFP
Real-time monitoring

Near-real-time food security monitoring: food consumption, prices, market data, and climate overlays using ML nowcasting.

CSVJSONGeoJSON
Update: Daily
Coverage: 90+ countries
API: https://api.hungermapdata.org
🌾 Food Security🌍 Climate

Refugee Data Finder

UNHCR
Displacement statistics

Global displacement data: refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless persons, and returnees by origin and asylum country.

CSVExcelJSON
Update: Bi-annual
Coverage: 200+ countries
API: https://api.unhcr.org/population/v1/
🏃 Displacement

ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)

ACLED
1M+ events

Individual conflict events (battles, violence against civilians, protests, riots) geolocated to sub-national level, 1997-present.

CSVExcel
Update: Weekly
Coverage: 200+ countries
API: https://api.acleddata.com/
⚔️ ConflictAuth required

EM-DAT (Emergency Events Database)

CRED / UCLouvain
26,000+ events

Natural and technological disaster events since 1900: deaths, affected populations, economic damages by disaster type and location.

ExcelCSV
Update: Continuous
Coverage: Global, since 1900
🌍 ClimateAuth required

FEWS NET

USAID / FEWS NET
Multi-format

Food security outlooks, price bulletins, seasonal monitoring, and remote sensing data for food-insecure countries.

PDFGeoTIFFShapefilesCSV
Update: Monthly
Coverage: 36 food-insecure countries
🌾 Food Security🌍 Climate

INFORM Risk Index

EU JRC / OCHA
191 country profiles

Composite risk index for 191 countries covering hazard/exposure, vulnerability, and lack of coping capacity. Sub-national data available for select countries.

ExcelAPI
Update: Annual
Coverage: 191 countries
🌍 Climate📈 Development

IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification)

IPC Global Partners
Phase analyses

Food security phase classifications (1-5 scale, 5 = Famine) at sub-national level with population estimates per phase.

CSVGeoJSON
Update: 2-3 times/year per country
Coverage: 30+ countries
🌾 Food Security

ReliefWeb API

UN OCHA
800K+ reports

Humanitarian reports, situation updates, maps, and job listings. Critical information repository with full-text search.

JSON
Update: Continuous
Coverage: Global
API: https://api.reliefweb.int/v1/
🏥 Health🏃 Displacement🌾 Food Security⚔️ Conflict🌍 Climate

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT)

HOT / OSM
Millions of features

Community-mapped building footprints, road networks, health facilities, and water points in crisis areas.

ShapefilesGeoJSONPBFKML
Update: Continuous (crowd-sourced)
Coverage: Crisis-affected areas globally
🏗️ Infrastructure

Analytical Tools & Frameworks

Analysis & Programming

Python (pandas, geopandas, scikit-learn)

OSS

General-purpose analysis, machine learning, geospatial processing. The lingua franca of humanitarian data science.

R (tidyverse, sf, rhdx)

OSS

Statistical analysis, survey data processing, reproducible reports. Strong ecosystem for humanitarian packages.

Jupyter Notebooks

OSS

Reproducible analysis workflows combining code, text, and visualizations. Standard for sharing humanitarian analyses.

DuckDB

OSS

Fast analytical SQL engine for querying large humanitarian CSV/Parquet files directly without a server.

DEEP Platform

OSS

Collaborative secondary data review and analysis platform for humanitarian needs assessments.

Geospatial

QGIS

OSS

Full-featured open-source GIS for mapping, spatial analysis, and cartographic output.

Google Earth Engine

Cloud platform for planetary-scale remote sensing: flood mapping, vegetation monitoring, environmental change.

Kepler.gl

OSS

Large-scale geospatial data visualization tool. Great for exploring displacement routes, conflict patterns, and aid distribution.

Data Collection

KoboToolbox

OSS

Mobile data collection platform widely used in humanitarian field surveys. ODK-based, works offline.

Open Data Kit (ODK)

OSS

Form-based field data collection. Foundation for many humanitarian survey tools including KoboToolbox.

ActivityInfo

Program monitoring and coordination platform used for 3W/4W (Who does What, Where, When) mapping.

Visualization

Power BI

Widely used within UN agencies for operational dashboards. Strong data connector ecosystem.

Apache Superset

OSS

Open-source BI dashboard platform. Self-hostable alternative to commercial tools for humanitarian orgs.

D3.js / Observable

OSS

Custom interactive data visualizations for the web. Used for bespoke humanitarian data stories and reports.