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

HeiGIT produced this collection of risk assessment indicators for Suriname at the admin level 2 (district) scale, last updated in March 2026. It aggregates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility data from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap to support flood hazard analysis across seven thematic layers.

Use Cases

• Assessing healthcare reach by analyzing the population within 30 minutes of a hospital using access_pop_hospitals_30min
• Planning flood response for vulnerable populations using children_u5 and elderly counts per district
• Evaluating educational infrastructure density using education_count and access_pop_education_5km

Strengths

• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine
• Includes travel-time accessibility metrics (30, 60, 120 minutes) for healthcare
• Uses standardized HDX COD-AB administrative boundaries for ADM2_PCODE fields

Limitations

• Facility counts like hospitals_count are subject to OpenStreetMap's varying completeness in rural Suriname
• Demographic data is based on WorldPop estimates rather than a recent national census

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Suriname