Wilayat · ولايات: data for Oman's 11 governorates and 63 wilayats
Built 2026-11-02.

SOURCES
- National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), via data.gov.om: population (OMPOP2016),
  labour market, and health (OMHLTH2016).
- Ministry of Education: school locations, 2025–2026, via opendata.gov.om.
- Ministry of Interior: governorates and wilayats, October 2025, via opendata.gov.om.
- Boundaries: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

LICENCES
The government data is used under Oman Open Data Use Licence (compatible with CC BY 4.0).
The boundaries, and geometry/wilayats.topojson, are under the Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0.

WHAT WE CHANGED
Population, sex, age, labour and health figures are as NCSI published them, for wilayats and
for governorates alike. Figures that look wrong are listed in flags.json and left as published.
These are our own work, not the source's:
- area_km2: measured from the OpenStreetMap boundaries. It is not an official area.
- density_2025: NCSI population divided by that area.
- growth_pct: the change in NCSI population from growth_from to 2025.
- Shares (Omani, expatriate, age groups, share of Oman) and ranks shown on the site: calculated
  from NCSI counts.
- schools_public, schools_private: Ministry of Education schools counted in the wilayat their
  coordinates fall in, or, where that fails, the wilayat named in the Ministry's record.
  Governorate counts and areas are the sums of their wilayats.
- Al Jabal Al Akhdar and Sinaw became wilayats in 2022, so their series start then and their
  growth is measured from 2022. Sinaw was split from Al Mudaybi.
- Boundaries are simplified. Sur's OpenStreetMap relation was corrected by hand.

This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by NCSI, the ministries
named above, or any government entity.