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

Risk assessment indicators for Guyana aggregated at administrative level 2, produced by HeiGIT in March 2026. The data covers seven thematic areas including flood exposure, demographics, and service accessibility to facilitate disaster resilience analysis.

Use Cases

• Evaluating healthcare gaps by comparing access_pop_hospitals_30min with elderly population counts per district
• Assessing educational infrastructure needs by cross-referencing education_count with the pop_u15 demographic
• Modeling flood risk impact on vulnerable groups using GUY_ADM2_flood_exposure and children_u5 population data

Strengths

• Aggregated at administrative level 2 for localized district analysis
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics (30, 60, 120 minutes) derived from openrouteservice
• Integrates high-resolution demographic data from WorldPop for age and gender distribution

Limitations

• Facility counts like education_count are subject to the completeness of OpenStreetMap data in remote areas
• Specific column definitions and sample data for the rural population layer are currently undocumented
• The dataset relies on administrative boundaries from HDX COD-AB which may not reflect recent local boundary changes

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Derived via the GAIA Pipeline integrating WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Guyana