Bolivia Risk Assessment Indicators: District-Level Flood and Demographic Data

Supplying risk assessment indicators for Bolivia aggregated at the administrative level 2 (districts) to support flood hazard analysis. Produced by the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) using the GAIA pipeline, it integrates data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine. The dataset consists of seven thematic layers covering demographics, infrastructure accessibility, and flood exposure.

Use Cases

• Identifying healthcare deserts by comparing access_pop_hospitals_30min against total female_pop and elderly counts
• Prioritizing disaster response by intersecting flood_exposure indicators with children_u5 population data
• Planning educational outreach by analyzing the ratio of education_count to the pop_u15 demographic

Strengths

• Integrates high-resolution WorldPop demographic data with OpenStreetMap infrastructure
• Includes pre-calculated travel-time metrics (30, 60, 120 minutes) for healthcare access
• Standardized ADM2_PCODE fields allow for immediate joining with official boundary files

Limitations

• Facility counts like education_count are subject to the completeness of OpenStreetMap, which may be lower in remote rural areas
• The rural population layer documentation is incomplete regarding specific column headers
• Temporal alignment may vary between source components like WorldPop and Google Earth Engine

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

Bolivia (Admin Level 2)