Eritrea Risk Assessment: Admin Level 2 Flood and Demographic Data

HeiGIT generated these risk assessment indicators for Eritrea at the admin level 2 (district) scale, last updated in March 2026. The data aggregates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap to facilitate flood hazard and resilience analysis.

Use Cases

• Flood impact modeling using access_pop_hospitals_30min to identify districts with high medical isolation risk
• Vulnerability assessment by mapping the elderly and children_u5 columns against flood exposure zones
• Resource allocation planning based on education_count and primary_healthcare_count per district

Strengths

• Admin level 2 granularity for all indicators
• Includes travel-time accessibility metrics (30/60/120 mins) to healthcare derived from openrouteservice
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• Potential data gaps in rural areas due to reliance on OpenStreetMap crowdsourced infrastructure data
• Temporal staleness of underlying source data relative to the 2026 aggregation date

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) via HDX

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Eritrea