Venezuela Risk Assessment: Admin Level 2 Flood and Demographic Indicators

HeiGIT provides risk assessment indicators for Venezuela at the administrative level 2 (municipality) to support flood hazard analysis. The dataset integrates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility metrics derived from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine. Updated in March 2026, it covers essential services and population vulnerability across the country.

Use Cases

• Calculating the percentage of vulnerable populations such as children_u5 and elderly in flood-prone zones
• Analyzing healthcare accessibility gaps using the access_pop_primary_healthcare_30min column
• Assessing district-level coping capacity by correlating education_count with demographic density

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 for localized municipality analysis
• Integrates multiple primary sources including WorldPop and OpenStreetMap
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics for 30, 60, and 120-minute intervals

Limitations

• Facility counts (education_count, hospitals_count) are dependent on the completeness of OpenStreetMap crowdsourced data
• Demographic data is derived from WorldPop modeling rather than a recent national census
• Coping capacity is a composite indicator which may mask underlying data gaps in individual service layers

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Venezuela (Admin Level 2)