Iran District-Level Risk Indicators for Flood Assessment

HeiGIT produced this dataset of risk assessment indicators for Iran at the administrative level 2 (district) to support flood hazard analysis. Updated in March 2026, the collection integrates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics derived from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare accessibility gaps using access_pop_hospitals_30min to identify underserved districts
• Analyzing flood vulnerability by correlating elderly and children_u5 populations with hazard zones
• Evaluating district-level infrastructure capacity using education_count and hospitals_count

Strengths

• Granular administrative level 2 spatial resolution
• Standardized ADM2_PCODE for joining with other HDX datasets
• Multi-source integration of WorldPop and OpenStreetMap data

Limitations

• Facility counts like education_count are subject to OpenStreetMap's varying completeness in rural areas
• Demographic data is based on WorldPop estimates rather than a recent national census

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Aggregated via the GAIA Pipeline using open data sources including WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Iran (Admin Level 2)