Common Operational Datasets (CODs) are authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. CODs are 'best available' datasets that ensure consistency and simplify the discovery and exchange of key data.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: April 28, 2021-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Burundi administrative level 0-2 sex and age disaggregated population statistics projected from 2008 to 2021. Available in normal five-year age groups and single and special age groups.
REFERENCE YEAR: 2021 (projected from 2008)
Dataset updated 2021.
Population estimation done by UNFPA with Institut de Statistiques et d'Etudes Economiques du Burundi.
These CSV tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Burundi - Subnational Administrative Boundaries using the P-codes as keys. See caveats.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 18, 2021-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Botswana administrative level 0-3 sex and age disaggregated 2021 population projections
These tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Botswana - Subnational Administrative Boundaries.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: December 10, 2020-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Bhutan administrative level 0-1 2021 and 2022 integrated sex and age disaggregated population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2021
The CSV tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Bhutan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries boundaries.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: November 28, 2019-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Barbados administrative level 0 (country) and 1 (parish) 2010 sex and age disaggregated population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2010
These tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Barbados administrative level 0 (national) and 1 (parish) boundary polygons and lines.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 22, 2019-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Bermuda administrative level 0 (country), 1 (parish), and 2 (municipality)* 2016 sex and age disaggregated population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2016
These tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Bermuda administrative level 0-2 boundaries.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: June 28, 2019-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Belize administrative level 0 (country) age and sex 2010 disaggregated population statistics
Belize administrative level 1 (district) age and sex 2010 disaggregated population statistics
Belize administrative level 2 (local government) sex 2010 disaggregated population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2010
The administrative level 0 and 1 tables are suitable for database and GIS linkage to the [Belize - Subnational Administrative Boundaries]
Data extracted from the Belize Population and Housing Census Country Report 2010, Statistical Institute of Belize.
Version history:
22 July 2019
Initial upload
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: February 21, 2020-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Saint Barthรฉlemy administrative level 0 (overseas collectivity) and 1 (parish) 2016 sex and age disaggregated population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2016
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: February 15, 2019-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Bangladesh administrative level 0-3 population statistics
REFERENCE YEAR: 2011
17 November 2020 update: P-codes prefixed with 'BD'
These population statistics tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage with the administrative level 0-2 Bangladesh - Subnational Administrative Boundaries shapefiles. (See caveats.)
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 29, 2019-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: As needed
Burkina Faso administrative level 0 (country), 1 (administrative region), 2 (province), and 3 (department) 2019 sex and age disaggregated population statistics and gazetteer
REFERENCE YEAR: 2019
The CSV tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the administrative level 0-3 Burkina Faso - Subnational Administrative Boundaries boundaries.
UNFPA investigated replacement or projection of this dataset in 2021. No better alternative is currently available.
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 17, 2019-May 17, 2019
This dataset updates: Every year
Benin administrative level 0 (country), 1 (department, dรฉpartement), and 2 (commune) Sex and Age Data Disaggregated 2019 projected population statistics
These tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Benin administrative level 0-2 boundaries layers.
Version history
21 August 2019:
ITOS gazetteer uploaded
17 May 2019
Initial upload
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 2018-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
This dataset contains population estimates for Azerbaijan from 2018 at country-level and first administrative level (consolidating Baku into one feature), suitable for database and GIS linkage to the Azerbaijan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries, and special tables for economic regions and a version of the first administrative level that includes 11 distinct Baku features.
REFERENCE YEAR: 2018
Updated
24 June 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 2021-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every year
Afghanistan administrative levels 0 (country), and 1 (province) population statistics.
REFERENCE YEAR: 2021 estimates based on 2017 study conducted by Flowminder/UNFPA.
Dataset updated by OCHA in 2021.
The gazetteer is compatible with the Afghanistan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries gazetteer. (COD-AB boundaries are unavailable.)
Updated
23 June 2022
| Dataset date: April 19, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Poland administrative level 0-2 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Poland - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
23 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 03, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Romania administrative level 0-2 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Romania - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
17 June 2022
| Dataset date: June 17, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Chad administrative level 0-3 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Chad - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
17 June 2022
| Dataset date: April 05, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Togo administrative level 0-3 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Togo - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
14 June 2022
| Dataset date: April 05, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Sierra Leone administrative level 0-4 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Sierra Leone - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
11 June 2022
| Dataset date: January 05, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
South Sudan administrative level 0-2 2022 population estimates.
REFERENCE YEAR: 2022
Dataset updated by OCHA 2020.
This population statistics Common Operational Database (COD-PS) was endorsed the Government and South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in November 2020.
These tables are suitable for database or GIS link to the South Sudan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries.
Updated
10 June 2022
| Dataset date: April 05, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Niger administrative level 0-2 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Niger - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.
Updated
9 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 25, 2021-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
GAZETTEER CORRECTED 2022_06_09. Some records in the ADM3 and ADM4 tabs had incorrect ADM1_PCODE values.
Rwanda administrative level 0-3 sex and age disaggregated 2020 population statistics projections
REFERENCE YEAR: 2020
These CSV tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Rwanda - Subnational Administrative Boundaries on HDX.
Updated
9 June 2022
| Dataset date: September 27, 2018-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
GAZETTEER CORRECTED 2022_06_09. Some records in the ADM3 and ADM4 tabs had incorrect ADM1_PCODE values.
The Admin boundary shapefiles for Rwanda since 2006. The shapefile was created in 2006 and updated by the 2012 Census mapping.
It was updated again on 17 Oct 2017.
These administrative level 0-3 shapefiles are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Rwanda - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
02 October 2018 update:
Administrative level 1 (province) P-codes corrected at all levels.
27 September 2018 update:
Administrative level 0 (country) feature attributes corrected at all levels.
19 October 2018 update:
to Administrative levels 0 - 3:
Standardized P-codes, based on the pre-existing numeric codes added
Lake Kivu extent removed
Corrections made to two administrative level 1 names in the administrative level 3 (sector) shapefile
21 September 2018 update:
Administrative level 4 P-coded
Updated
9 June 2022
| Dataset date: May 25, 2022-June 25, 2022
This dataset updates: Every year
Mali administrative level 0-2 edge-matched gazetteer, shapefiles, geodatabase, and geoservice.
COD-EM datasets do not replace the authoritative COD-AB available here; however COD-EM datasets may be preferred for cartographic purposes. See caveats.
These layers are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Mali - Subnational Population Statistics tables.
Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID.