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Maldives GIS data sources

Region
Southern Asia
ISO 3166
MV · MDV
Sources
8
Themes
8
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Maldives: 8 sources across 8 themes, led by UN OCHA and Maldives Meteorological Service. 4 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 5 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Maldives

Boundaries & admin 2

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Maldives - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of subnational administrative boundaries with P-codes; source: Government of the republic of Maldives.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    File geodatabase, Shapefile, GeoJSON, XLSX
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    William & Mary geoLab

    JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    Varies (open; see metadata)
    Formats
    GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON
    Link
    geoboundaries.org

    Verified

Buildings 1

Building footprint data for every country

  • Buildings of Maldives (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HDX)

    OpenStreetMap building footprints exported by HOT and refreshed regularly.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, GeoJSON, PMTiles
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

Population 2

Gridded population data for every country

  • Maldives - Subnational Population Statistics (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of population estimates by administrative unit, joinable to the COD-AB via P-codes; source: Maldives National Bureau of Statistics.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    XLS, XLSX, CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • WorldPop population data – Maldives (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    WorldPop, University of Southampton

    100 m and 1 km gridded population counts, age/sex structure and related layers.

    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    hub.worldpop.org

    Verified

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

  • Maldives Bureau of Statistics (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Maldives Bureau of Statistics

    National statistics office (successor to the Department of National Planning); census and island-level population.

    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    statisticsmaldives.gov.mv

    Verified

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Climate & weather 1

Climate and weather data for every country

  • Maldives Meteorological Service (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Maldives Meteorological Service

    Weather, sea-state and climate information for the atolls.

    • Climate & weather
    • Marine & coastal
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    meteorology.gov.mv

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Maldives

Worldwide and continental layers that include Maldives, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.

Boundaries & admin
Elevation / DEM
Imagery
Land cover
Buildings
Population
Census & statistics
Transport
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Climate & weather
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