Health Facilities of South Sudan from OpenStreetMap

Health facilities in South Sudan, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists, tagged via OpenStreetMap's `amenity` or `healthcare` keys. The data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map, and was last updated on 2026-06-22. It is exported and hosted by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Use Cases

• Analyze healthcare service access based on facility type and location.
• Plan emergency response logistics using the mapped locations of hospitals and clinics.
• Identify healthcare coverage gaps by comparing facility density across urban and remote areas.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Covers multiple facility types, including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, doctors, and dentists.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Coverage is dependent on volunteer mapper activity, leading to potential sparsity in remote areas.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 19:04:09.202804

Geography

South Sudan