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

Syria risk assessment indicators aggregated at the district level (admin level 2) for flood hazard and resilience analysis. Produced by HeiGIT via the GAIA Pipeline, the data integrates WorldPop demographics, OpenStreetMap infrastructure, and openrouteservice travel times as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Disaster response planning using access_pop_hospitals_30min to identify areas with limited emergency medical access
• Vulnerability assessment by mapping children_u5 and elderly populations against flood exposure zones
• Infrastructure gap analysis based on education_count and primary_healthcare_count per district

Strengths

• Admin level 2 granularity for sub-national analysis
• Travel-time based accessibility metrics (30min, 1h, 2h) for healthcare and education
• Integration of multiple authoritative sources including WorldPop and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• Potential under-representation of facilities in OpenStreetMap (OSM) within conflict-affected zones
• Demographic data accuracy may be impacted by rapid population displacement not yet captured in WorldPop models

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Syria