HaitiDocs publishes Haiti's public data in a form a person can read and a program can load: each indicator downloads with its full history, each document carries structured metadata, each map layer exists as GeoJSON, and a single catalog describes the whole. No account and no key is required. The license of each item is that of the institution that produced it, and the page says so before any download.
What the library makes available
Four sets of public data are served from one place. The indicators are time series on the economy, population, public finance, trade, employment, poverty, health, education, security and displacement, each attached to the institution that publishes it. The documents are the reports, laws, decrees, bulletins and statistical publications of Haitian institutions and international agencies, with their publisher, their date and a link to the original file. The map layers cover population, infrastructure, natural hazards, food security and displacement. World Bank project records complete the set.
- Haiti statistics by theme the indicators, with their sources
- Official reports on Haiti by institution
- Interactive maps and data layers
Download formats
Each indicator page offers the full history of the series as CSV and JSON, with the unit, frequency and source repeated in the CSV header so the file stays readable once separated from the page. A map layer downloads as GeoJSON from its page, with the attribute descriptions and the source. A document is read online and, where rights allow, downloads in its original format, most often PDF. The tables extracted from budget documents are published separately, as CSV, on the budget portal.
The API and the machine catalog
The entire indicator catalog fits in one JSON request, with each series' domain, identifier, description, sources, frequency, first and last period. Each series is then read at a stable address. The collection's counters are published at the same place, timestamped, so nobody has to copy a figure that changes with every publish. All of it is served without a key, without an account and without a declared quota beyond reasonable use.
- /data/api/catalog.json the full indicator catalog
- /data/api/repository-counts.json the current size of the collection, timestamped
- /llms.txt the site description for assistants and agents
AI assistants and the MCP server
A public Model Context Protocol server at mcp.haitidocs.org returns the same indicators, documents and map layers as structured data, with the source, freshness and citation already attached to each answer. It connects to Claude, ChatGPT and VS Code Copilot, and the Connect page gives the configuration for each. An assistant that goes through this server cites the originating institution and the period reached, instead of a figure without a date.
Licenses and terms of reuse
A dataset's license is that of the body that produced it, and HaitiDocs cannot change it. A World Bank or United Nations series is generally reusable under an open license with attribution; a MEF or BRH table is an official publication whose reuse follows its publisher's rules; some sources, ACLED among them, prohibit commercial use. Each indicator page states its source's license, and each CSV download repeats it at the head of the file. Material written by HaitiDocs, the explanatory text, metadata and classifications, is licensed CC BY 4.0. A document kept as a copy remains its publisher's property, and the copy creates no open license.
What is not open data
Part of Haiti's public data exists only inside a document: a table printed in a budget execution report, a series in the annex of an annual report, a headcount in a circular. Those figures are reachable here through the document that holds them, and the library publishes a series from them only after extracting and checking the table, as it did for the TOFE, the TEB and the MEF payroll statements. A figure read from a document does not carry the same guarantee as a series published by its source in tabular form, and each series page says where its own comes from.
- Document library the reports, with their publisher and original file
Where the data are collected
The Haitian institutions' sites are swept on a schedule, and the source guide describes what each host publishes, which domains answer and why a file sometimes returns a 404 error when it exists. A correction to a figure that came from a source is passed to that source, and the library then follows it. A missing document can be proposed through the contact form.