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Oueme

First-level unit, Benin: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BEN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BEN / BJStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,377,918
people (GHSL 2025)
1,374 km²
area
9.6%
of Benin
10
units inside

01Map

Inside Oueme

The 10 ADM2 units of Oueme.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Oueme
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

1,377,918

9.6% of Benin.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,224,414

-11% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

1,374 km²

1,003 people per km².

Code

BJ-OU

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

502,054

people on land at or below 10 m, 36.4% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Oueme in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

36.6%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

60%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

10 units inside Oueme

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Adjarra – 162,822 148,456 72.35 2,250 8.7% 42,979
Adjohoun – 98,389 102,843 322.8 305 5.3% 47,475
Aguegues – 45,013 51,473 128.75 350 2.4% 24,900
Akpo-Misserete – 105,232 136,163 80.48 1,308 5.6% 24,183
Avrankou – 217,221 276,522 77.42 2,806 11.7% 2,364
Bonou – 49,148 41,675 253.12 194 2.6% 11,464
Dangbo – 136,847 94,760 158.01 866 7.3% 38,079
Ifangni – 209,741 207,398 217.52 964 11.3% 7,553
Porto-Novo – 307,797 149,449 50.39 6,108 16.5% 61,559
Seme-Kpodji – 531,252 434,826 224.72 2,364 28.5% 389,333
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Oueme publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Benin.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2012
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM2, source: Map Maker Ltd., Stanford earthworks, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM3, source: uMap, Open Street Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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