HDX HAPI

People in Need (HNO)

Name: People in Need (HNO)
Creator: HDX HAPI
License: https://data.humdata.org/about/license

Total number of people in Syria assessed to need humanitarian assistance, from the annual Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). A planning estimate, not a census — one of the largest in the world at around 16 million. Served via HDX HAPI.

Trend

Latest values

Period	Area	Value	Unit
2026	Syria	16,500,000.00	people
2024	Syria	16,661,471.00	people

About this data

Source: HDX HAPI
Dataset: Syria humanitarian risk and needs — HDX HAPI
License: Mixed: CC BY; CC BY-IGO 3.0
Dataset version: 20260721194207-4dd842f16f90
Last source check: 2026-07-21
Data quality: Source-published
Original download: Source API request; HDX HAPI standardized humanitarian estimate; INFORM is a composite index and People in Need is the HNO intersectoral total.
What this data is and is not: Standardized national humanitarian indicators from the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data. The INFORM Risk Index is a 0–10 composite of hazard, vulnerability, and coping capacity, updated yearly (CC BY). People-in-need and targeted figures come from the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO): "in need" is the total requiring assistance and "targeted" is whom the response plans to reach — both are planning estimates, not a census (CC BY-IGO 3.0). Values are national.; Official methodology documentation

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Syria Data Observatory, “People in Need (HNO)”. Dataset: Syria humanitarian risk and needs — HDX HAPI. Original source: HDX HAPI. Version: 20260721194207-4dd842f16f90. Last source check: 2026-07-21. https://observatory.sanaddata.com/en/indicators/hno-people-in-need.

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