Population by governorate

Fresh

Annual · Data through 2026 · 22 rows

Total population

20252026

2026: 5,398,645

Schema

Column	Type	Valid range
`year`	int	2010 – 2035
`governorate_code`	str	—
`population`	int	1 – 5000000

Latest rows

`year`	`governorate_code`	`population`
2,026	OM-BS	947,147
2,026	OM-BU	135,797
2,026	OM-DA	575,096
2,026	OM-MA	1,542,619
2,026	OM-MU	55,806
2,026	OM-SJ	378,335
2,026	OM-SS	323,473
2,026	OM-WU	64,815
2,026	OM-ZA	249,095
2,026	OM-ZU	536,302

Use the API

curl https://omandata.dev/v1/population/latest.json

Downloads

Official source

NCSI — Monthly Statistical Bulletin, Table 1

Data license: Open Government License - Sultanate of Oman

Source notes

Total registered population (Omani + expatriate) by governorate, from Table 1 "Total Population Registered By Governorates" of the NCSI Monthly Statistical Bulletin workbook. Listing page: https://www.ncsi.gov.om/publications — NCSI republishes the workbook monthly under a new timestamped filename, so fetch.py resolves the newest English workbook from that page and falls back to source_url. Coverage is the two snapshots the bulletin prints side by side: the current month and the same month a year earlier (July 2026 issue -> June 2026 and June 2025). It is therefore a same-month year-on-year pair, not a full annual back series; the July 2026 issue does not restate the 2020 census. Where a year appears in more than one column the leftmost (most recent month) is kept. Governorate totals reconcile to the workbook's own "Total Population" row: 5,398,645 for 2026 and 5,306,976 for 2025. Definition is administrative (Royal Oman Police records: Omanis on the National Civil System, expatriates on valid residence visas), not a census enumeration.