COD Services API: Humanitarian Gazetteer and Population Statistics

This geospatial and demographic resource provides administrative boundaries and population statistics sourced from UN OCHA FIS and UN FPA. Managed by the Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) and last updated in March 2026, it functions as a gazetteer and metadata lookup for humanitarian Common Operational Datasets (COD).

Use Cases

• Mapping humanitarian aid distribution using administrative boundaries
• Analyzing demographic trends using gender and age disaggregated population statistics
• Performing location lookups for humanitarian context work via gazetteer data

Strengths

• Includes gender and age disaggregated data (GADD)
• Sourced from authoritative UN OCHA FIS and UN FPA records
• Available in multiple formats including ESRI Map Package and JSON

Limitations

• The ITOS service is no longer available and all datasets are archived
• Primary API documentation link may be inaccessible due to service termination
• Specific record counts and column schemas are not provided in the metadata

Provenance

Source

UN OCHA FIS and UN FPA via ITOS

Collection Method

Aggregated from UN humanitarian sources

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, though the providing service is currently inactive.

Geography

Global