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

HeiGIT provides risk assessment indicators for Peru aggregated at the administrative level 2 (districts) to support flood hazard analysis. The dataset integrates demographic data from WorldPop, infrastructure counts from OpenStreetMap, and accessibility metrics from openrouteservice. It consists of seven thematic layers including demographics, facility counts, and flood exposure metrics.

Use Cases

• Evaluating disaster resilience by mapping elderly and children_u5 populations against flood_exposure
• Optimizing health service delivery using access_pop_primary_healthcare_30min metrics
• Infrastructure gap analysis using education_count and access_pop_education_5km

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 for localized district analysis
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine
• Provides specific travel-time accessibility metrics for hospitals and primary healthcare

Limitations

• Facility counts like education_count are subject to OpenStreetMap's varying completeness in rural Peru
• Temporal alignment may vary between source datasets like WorldPop and OSM

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Peru (Admin Level 2)