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

HeiGIT provides risk assessment indicators for Libya at the admin level 2 scale, updated in March 2026. The data integrates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap to support flood hazard analysis.

Use Cases

• Evaluating healthcare accessibility using access_pop_hospitals_30min to identify regions with limited emergency medical reach
• Quantifying demographic vulnerability by aggregating children_u5 and elderly populations for targeted flood relief
• Analyzing infrastructure distribution using education_count and primary_healthcare_count to assess district-level coping capacity

Strengths

• Admin level 2 granularity for localized risk assessment
• Includes specific travel-time metrics (30/60/120 minutes) for healthcare access
• Multi-source integration from WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• Potential under-representation of facilities in rural areas due to OpenStreetMap crowdsourcing bias
• Missing column definitions for the 'Vulnerability' and 'Coping Capacity' layers in the source description

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Derived from HeiGIT’s GAIA Pipeline using WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026

Geography

Libya