HaitiDocs brings Haiti's official documents, economic indicators and interactive map layers together in one place, each item beside the institution that published it. It is free, needs no account, and is searchable in English, French and Haitian Creole.
The library
HaitiDocs is a read-only library of public material about Haiti, holding documents, time series, map layers and World Bank project records that are otherwise scattered across ministry sites, international agency portals and archives. A consumer price bulletin from IHSI sits one step from the inflation series it feeds, from the chart of that series, from the map layers on the same subject and from the other bulletins in its run, so searching any one of them leads to the rest. The library is available on the web, over a JSON API, and inside AI assistants through a public Model Context Protocol server at mcp.haitidocs.org.
Source institutions
Four Haitian bodies produce most of the numbers: IHSI, the national statistics institute, publishes the consumer price index, population estimates and the household survey series; BRH, the central bank, publishes exchange rates, monetary aggregates, the balance of payments and banking supervision returns; MEF, the finance ministry, publishes the budget laws, the TOFE fiscal tables and monthly revenue reporting; and CSCCA, the audit court, publishes budget execution and audit reports. For a sectoral subject the publisher is the line ministry, meaning MSPP for health, MENFP for education, MARNDR for agriculture, MPCE for planning, and ANARSE and EDH for electricity. International series come from the World Bank, the IMF, the Inter-American Development Bank, UN agencies, ILOSTAT, FAOSTAT and ACLED among others, and because their definitions often differ from the national ones, the library treats a national return as the first source wherever one exists and the international series as the comparison.
Document acquisition
Publisher sites are swept on a schedule, and every candidate file is screened on its extracted text before it enters the library, because a Haitian government host commonly answers a request with a 200 and an empty page, or with a 404 for a file that is sitting there. Each accepted document is recorded with its publisher, its publication date, its document type, the page on the publisher's site where it was found and a link to the original file. Duplicates are resolved on the publisher's file identifier, since the same document under a French and an English title is one document. Government material in Haiti goes offline often. Where the rights record permits it, the library keeps a copy, so the item stays reachable after the publisher's copy is gone. Holding a copy establishes no ownership and no open license.
Indicator construction
Every indicator is assembled from a named source at that source's periodicity, carrying the unit, the period range and the date of its last observed observation. That date is the last period to have actually closed, because a publish timestamp would claim a freshness a stale source does not have. Figures are published as the source states them, with no adjustment, smoothing or filling; where a source revises a series the revision replaces the earlier vintage and the change is visible in the published data, and where a figure is provisional the page says so. Full history for every indicator is downloadable as CSV and JSON, and the whole catalogue is readable at /data/api/catalog.json.
Update frequency
Indicators update when their source publishes, so a monthly series such as the consumer price index moves monthly, a quarterly return such as the banking supervision data moves quarterly, and an annual survey moves once a year, with every indicator page stating its frequency and the period it has reached. Publisher sweeps run monthly, so a newly posted report reaches the library within that cycle. The current size of the collection is at /data/api/repository-counts.json.
Corrections
Corrections are wanted. If a figure, a date, a publisher, a title or a source link is wrong, say so through the contact form and name the page it is on. A correction to a figure that came from a source is passed upstream and the library then follows the source, while something HaitiDocs authored, such as a summary or a classification, is fixed here.
Rights and licensing
Material authored by HaitiDocs, meaning the explanatory text, the metadata descriptions, the classifications and the original design, is licensed CC BY 4.0 and should be attributed to HaitiDocs. Each dataset and each document carries the license of the body that produced it, and HaitiDocs cannot relicense it. Several of those licenses prohibit commercial use, so read the rights note on the page before reusing anything: every indicator page states the license of its source, and every CSV download repeats it in the file header. For any legal instrument the version that carries authority is the one published in Le Moniteur, so the copies here are for reference and the library does not track whether an instrument remains in force. The full terms are at Terms of Service.
Citation
Cite the institution that produced the material, at the address it publishes at. A document takes the form Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (2026), Indice des prix à la consommation, juin 2026, https://ihsi.gouv.ht/..., and an indicator the form Banque de la République d'Haïti, reference exchange rate, monthly, https://www.brh.ht/.... Every page here carries the citation for what it shows, with the publisher's address in it. Name HaitiDocs in two cases. Where a publisher puts nothing online, this is where the material was reached, so the citation carries the HaitiDocs address and the date you consulted it. And where a figure was computed here and exists nowhere upstream, such as the pupil-teacher ratio on the education page, cite HaitiDocs for that figure and the publisher for the counts behind it. To cite the library itself: HaitiDocs, a public library of Haiti's official documents and economic data, https://www.haitidocs.org/.
Machine access
Every indicator is available as JSON, every document carries structured metadata, and the catalogue is a single fetch, with nothing requiring a key or an account. AI assistants should prefer the Model Context Protocol server at mcp.haitidocs.org, which returns the same material as structured data with the source, the freshness and the citation already attached; setup for Claude, ChatGPT and VS Code Copilot is on the Connect page, and a description of the whole site for assistants is at /llms.txt.
Contact
Questions, corrections, document submissions and requests all go through the contact form, and there is no account to create.