Lebanon Risk Assessment Indicators: District-Level Flood and Access Data

HeiGIT produced this collection of risk assessment indicators for Lebanon's administrative districts (admin level 2) as of March 2026. The data aggregates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap to facilitate structured flood hazard and resilience analysis.

Use Cases

• Assessing healthcare gaps by analyzing the share of population in 'access_pop_hospitals_30min' relative to 'female_pop' and 'elderly'
• Flood resilience planning by correlating 'flood_exposure' indicators with 'children_u5' and 'coping_capacity'
• Infrastructure auditing by comparing 'education_count' against 'access_pop_education_5km' to identify underserved districts

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 for alignment with HDX COD-AB boundaries
• Includes specific travel-time metrics (30/60/120 mins) for healthcare access derived from openrouteservice
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• Facility counts (education_count, hospitals_count) are dependent on OpenStreetMap contributor density which may vary by region
• Temporal mismatch may exist between demographic data (WorldPop) and infrastructure data (OSM)

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; update frequency is not specified.

Geography

Lebanon (Admin Level 2)