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West Bank

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

Page GRX-PSE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PSE / PSStatus UN observer stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,816,741
people (GHSL 2025)
5,646 km²
area
71.7%
of State of Palestine
11
units inside

01Map

Inside West Bank

The 11 ADM2 units of West Bank.

FIG 1 · 11 units inside West Bank
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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. 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

3,816,741

71.7% of State of Palestine.

People · WorldPop 2025

3,310,574

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

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5,646 km²

676 people per km².

குறியீடு

PS-WBK

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,081

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

West Bank 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 · 2023-12-31

3,256,906

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

Poverty headcount · 2020-12-31

0.6%

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

04Units

11 units inside West Bank

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bethlehem PS-BTH 350,501 241,625 656.15 534 9.2% 19
Hebron PS-HBN 824,155 823,685 1,000.58 824 21.6% 0
Jenin PS_JEN 269,305 350,225 583.6 461 7.1% 0
Jericho & Al Aghwar PS-JRH 89,554 55,762 593.5 151 2.3% 805
Jerusalem PS-JEM 784,663 501,186 349.67 2,244 20.6% 4
Nablus PS-NBS 334,976 437,084 598.26 560 8.8% 41
Qalqiliya PS-QQA 149,610 148,304 165.78 902 3.9% 0
Ramallah & Al Bireh PS-RBH* 648,657 378,605 838.51 774 17% 69
Salfit PS-SLT 93,405 76,778 204.52 457 2.4% 0
Tubas PS-TBS 28,700 57,655 408.91 70 0.8% 138
Tulkarm PS-TKM 243,215 239,665 246.4 987 6.4% 0
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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
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Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for West Bank publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for State of Palestine.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PSE ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Open Data Watch, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PSE ADM2, source: Open Data Watch, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (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.
நாடுகள்
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.