Context
At the request of OCHA in Haiti, and following the publication of our latest hurricane season preparedness report and our latest report on population changes related to gang violence in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area (ZMPAP), we presented these mobility insights, updated to cover March 2025, to the Information Management and Assessments Working Group (IMAWG) and Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) in April 2025. These groups facilitates coordination and information sharing among humanitarian actors working in the country, to ensure a coordinated humanitarian response to the ongoing crises.
Main observations (March 2025) and population mobility since 2020
- March 2025: largest net outflow from the ZMPAP since April 2024 (-20,000 people)
- Leading to population increases, particularly in the urban areas of the North, Centre, Artibonite and Pétion-Ville in the West
- And in most of the other municipal sections of the country (for which we have estimates)
- Inflows to the ZMPAP reached their lowest level on record (since February 2020) (+10,000 people)
- Outflows from the ZMPAP reached their highest level since April 2024 (-30,000 people)
- Changes in mobility and population are even more significant within the ZMPAP :
- - 22,000 people in the 1st Turgeau section (Port-au-Prince)
- - 8,500 people in the 1st section St Martin (Delmas)
- figures not seen since 2024
About this report
Authors & contributors
This report was authored by the Flowminder Foundation.
Acknowledgements
This study was made possible thanks to the anonymised mobile phone usage data provided by Digicel Haiti, which are aggregated by Flowminder via FlowKit to provide statistics.
Data privacy & governance
No personal data, such as an individual’s identity, demographics, location, contacts or movements, is made available to the government or any other third party at any time. All results produced by Flowminder are aggregated results (for example, subscriber density in a given municipality), which means that they do not contain any information about individual subscribers.
This data is fully anonymised. This approach complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR2016/679). Data is processed on a server installed behind the mobile network operator’s firewall in Haiti, and no personal data eaves the operator’s premises.
Data considerations
The estimates shown are our best current assessment of movements. However, there are a number of uncertainties. The information should be interpreted together with other available evidence.
Data used
This report uses our v4.0 dataset (documentation, release notes), available at https://haiti.mobility-dashboard.org.