Financial Services in Benin: Banks, ATMs, and Microfinance Locations

OpenStreetMap data from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team catalogs financial service points across Benin, tagged by `amenity` type. The dataset includes banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches. Coverage reflects volunteer mapping activity and was last updated on 2026-06-26.

Use Cases

• Map financial service access for inclusion studies based on the described amenity types.
• Plan cash distribution or ATM placement based on the geospatial point data for banks and agents.
• Analyze economic infrastructure density in urban versus remote areas based on the described coverage bias.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple financial service types: banks, ATMs, post offices, money transfer agents, and microfinance branches.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, KML, GEOJSON, JSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is biased toward urban areas where volunteer mappers have been active; remote areas may be sparse.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping and tagging via the `amenity` key.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-26 02:00:11.087485; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Benin