Eswatini Risk Assessment: District-Level Flood and Service Access Data
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Description
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
Users should use ADM2_PCODE to join these CSV files with HDX COD-AB shapefiles for mapping; the data is licensed under CC-BY-SA.