Eswatini Risk Assessment: District-Level Flood and Service Access Data

Encompassing risk indicators for Eswatini's administrative level 2 districts, featuring demographic, infrastructure, and flood exposure metrics. Produced by HeiGIT in 2026, it integrates data from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap to facilitate structured disaster resilience analysis. The data is organized into seven thematic layers including accessibility, coping capacity, and vulnerability.

Use Cases

• Flood risk modeling using access_pop_hospitals_30min to identify populations likely to be isolated during hazard events
• Demographic vulnerability analysis by mapping children_u5 and elderly populations against flood_exposure zones
• Infrastructure gap analysis by comparing education_count and primary_healthcare_count across districts

Strengths

• Aggregated at Admin Level 2 for sub-national granularity
• Includes multi-modal accessibility metrics using 30-minute to 2-hour travel time intervals
• Integrates high-resolution population data from WorldPop

Limitations

• Facility counts are derived from OpenStreetMap, which may have incomplete coverage in remote areas
• Temporal staleness of underlying WorldPop or OSM data may affect current accuracy

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Eswatini