Belarus Risk Assessment Indicators: District-Level Infrastructure and Demographics

HeiGIT provides these risk assessment indicators for Belarus aggregated at the administrative level 2 (district) to facilitate flood hazard analysis. The data integrates demographic, environmental, and infrastructure metrics derived from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine. It covers seven thematic areas including accessibility, facilities, and population vulnerability.

Use Cases

• Assessing healthcare resilience by mapping access_pop_hospitals_30min against district population totals
• Planning disaster response for vulnerable groups using children_u5 and elderly demographic counts
• Quantifying infrastructure density using education_count and primary_healthcare_count for regional development analysis

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 for localized district-level analysis
• Includes specific travel-time metrics (30, 60, and 120 minutes) for healthcare access
• Derived from validated sources including WorldPop and OpenStreetMap

Limitations

• Facility counts for education and hospitals are dependent on OpenStreetMap contributor density which may vary by region
• Lacks specific column definitions for the vulnerability and rural population sub-tables

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Aggregated from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine via the GAIA Pipeline

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Belarus