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

HeiGIT provides risk assessment indicators for Panama at the administrative level 2, integrating data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine. The dataset includes seven thematic layers covering demographics, facility counts, and accessibility metrics to support flood hazard analysis. Updated in March 2026, it serves as a foundation for disaster resilience and infrastructure modeling.

Use Cases

• Analyzing healthcare accessibility by comparing access_pop_hospitals_30min against total population
• Identifying vulnerable populations for flood response using children_u5 and elderly demographic counts
• Evaluating infrastructure density by mapping education_count and primary_healthcare_count across districts

Strengths

• Aggregated at administrative level 2 (districts) for localized planning
• Includes multi-modal accessibility metrics like travel time (30min/1h/2h) and distance (5km/10km/20km)
• Integrates high-resolution demographic data from WorldPop

Limitations

• Facility counts rely on OpenStreetMap, which may have incomplete coverage in remote regions
• Temporal staleness of underlying source data from WorldPop and OSM may vary

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 13, 2026.

Geography

Panama