Pakistan District-Level Risk Indicators for Flood and Cyclone Hazards

HeiGIT produced these risk assessment indicators for Pakistan at the administrative level 2 (district) scale to support flood and cyclone hazard analysis. The dataset consists of eight thematic layers integrating demographics, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics derived from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing healthcare accessibility by comparing the access_pop_hospitals_30min indicator across districts
• Identifying vulnerable populations for evacuation planning using the children_u5 and elderly demographic columns
• Assessing infrastructure density for disaster resilience using the education_count and primary_healthcare_count fields

Strengths

• Standardized ADM2_PCODE for seamless integration with HDX COD-AB boundaries
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics like access_pop_hospitals_30min
• Integrates high-resolution demographic data from WorldPop

Limitations

• Facility counts such as education_count are dependent on OpenStreetMap's regional data completeness
• District-level aggregation may mask sub-district variations in hazard vulnerability

Provenance

Source

Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT)

Collection Method

Aggregated from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine via the GAIA Pipeline

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Pakistan