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Kidal

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

Page GRX-MLI-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MLI / MLStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
146,612
people (GHSL 2025)
150,588 km²
area
0.6%
of Mali
4
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Kidal

The 4 ADM2 units of Kidal.

FIG 1 · 4 units inside Kidal
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

146,612

0.6% of Mali.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

165,720

+13% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

150,588 km²

1 people per km².

Code

ML-8

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Kidal 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.

Population · 2018-12-31

83,490

people. OCHA Mali · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

83.8%

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

People in need · 2024-12-31

224,354

humanitarian need. OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

159%

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

04Units

4 units inside Kidal

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abeibara – 15,188 11,299 23,262.27 1 10.4% 0
Kidal – 80,709 104,261 18,400.33 4 55% 0
Tessalit – 30,268 47,278 81,737.05 0 20.6% 0
Tin-Essako – 20,446 2,881 27,188.02 1 13.9% 0
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
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
769 H3 cells
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MLI ADM1, source: DNCT – Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MLI ADM2, source: DNCT – Direction Nationale des Colelctivités Territorielles, DNP – Direction Nationale de la Population, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MLI ADM3, source: DNCT – Direction Nationale des Colelctivités Territorielles, DNP – Direction Nationale de la Population, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
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.
Nchi
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.