In 2024, HDX’s tenth anniversary year, we continued to see the impact of making data easy to find and use for analysis of humanitarian operations. The platform was visited by over 1.4 million people in 237 countries and territories. The almost 20,000 datasets on the platform were downloaded 3.5 million times, a 30 percent increase from the year prior. Below we provide a closer look at the trends from 2024 and highlight some of the new organizations that joined our community.

Throughout the year, 216 active organizations shared around 2,500 new datasets, covering crises ranging from Afghanistan to Sudan. The geographic coverage of the organizations sharing data on HDX in 2024 were 75 percent global, 16 percent national and 9 percent regional. 

We welcomed 24 new organizations to HDX. A few highlights include:

  • AI For Good Lab (Microsoft) provides AI-powered damage assessments of recent disasters using satellite imagery. They will share new data in the days following a sudden-onset crisis to support humanitarian response. 
  • Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space Programme. They share population settlement estimates for 238 countries and territories.  
  • Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System is a consortium of OCHA, the European Union and disaster managers around the world, aiming to provide alerts on sudden-onset disasters. They share disaster alert data about earthquakes and potential subsequent tsunamis, tropical cyclones, floods and volcano eruptions. These alerts are updated daily. 
  • The Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation is an alliance of private businesses focusing on developing disaster risk management capabilities in the private sector. They share data about tropical cyclones affecting the Philippines and the private sector companies involved in response efforts.  
  • The White Helmets is a Syrian humanitarian organization that provides assistance to communities affected by conflict in Northwest Syria. They share data about essential health services provided to women and vulnerable people by community, district and governorate, as well as data covering search and rescue operations in the region. 

We also created a new organization page for the HDX Humanitarian API Data for users who prefer to access the data through CSV files. HDX HAPI was launched in June and includes standardized indicators from multiple sources to automate workflows and visualizations. 

We would like to recognize our long-standing partners for their commitment to making their data openly available through HDX. We also want to highlight groups that reconnected with us to develop new pipelines, such as WorldPop’s population density maps, UN-Habitat’s urban data, and UNICEF’s health, nutrition and sanitation indicators.

We will provide more insights about the data on HDX in The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2025 report, which will be released in February. We look forward to working with all of you in the year ahead. Please reach out with questions or comments at hdx@un.org