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How many Haitians are food insecure?

5,697,628 people were in acute food insecurity in 2025, according to OCHA.

As of 2025; source: OCHA; series refreshed 2026-05-24.

Context

The headline counts IPC phase 3 and above at the national level.

IPC phases describe assessed periods and populations; they are not a daily food-price series.

Series details

Acute food insecurity (IPC/CH) is published in HaitiDocs as context/food_insecurity. The answer headline uses period 2025, measure PERSONS in Persons, and selector source_id=hdx_hapi, measure=PERSONS. The catalog range is 2017 to 2025, and the latest catalog period is 2025. The source named in the bundle is UN OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange (HAPI). The machine-readable bundle is /data/api/indicators/context/food_insecurity.json.

The page prints the registered answer headline value and period from the generated data files. If the catalog drops or renames a source series, the generator fails before writing pages.

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