Pakistan district travel time to the nearest health facility

Name: Pakistan district travel time to the nearest health facility
Creator: Hiba Sameen
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Travel time to the nearest health facility by district (147): population-weighted medians and means and shares of people beyond 30, 60 and 120 minutes, motorised and walking.

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Source: Malaria Atlas Project accessibility surfaces (Weiss et al. 2020, Nature Medicine 26: motorised 2019, walking-only 2020), clipped to Pakistan; WorldPop 2020 UN-adjusted 1 km population; Data Darbar boundaries. Built for Adaad's September 2026 issue.
Rows in this release: 147
Units: minutes; per cent
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

Travel time is MODELLED: the cost of crossing each 1 km cell on the friction surface, summed along the least-cost path to the nearest mapped health facility. The facility set behind the surfaces is OpenStreetMap and Google Maps hospitals and clinics, public and private together, with no information on staffing, opening hours or quality — so this measures geographic access to a mapped point, not to a working service. Motorised assumes a vehicle is available; walking-only assumes none. Population weights are WorldPop 2020, which puts Gilgit-Baltistan at about 1.1 million against 1.7 million in the 2023 census, so the north's headcounts are understated. Thresholds are strictly greater than 30, 60 or 120 minutes. *_popw_median is the population-weighted median (the piece's headline measure: 22 minutes motorised, 128 walking nationally); *_median the unweighted median of cells. Shares were fractions in the piece's file and are per cent here. Join mpi_districts on district_key for the poverty gradient (Spearman 0.76 between MPI and motorised time; the poorest MPI quintile is 47 minutes from care motorised against 5 for the least poor). The seven ex-FATA merged districts are Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and carry merged_district = 1.

Pakistan district travel time to the nearest health facility — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
district_key	VARCHAR	Data Darbar district key — joins district_indicators, mpi_districts, school_access_district
district	VARCHAR	district name
province	VARCHAR	province or territory
merged_district	BIGINT	1 for the seven ex-FATA merged districts
n_px	BIGINT	valid 1 km cells
pop_2020	BIGINT	WorldPop 2020 population on those cells
mot_mean	DOUBLE	motorised minutes, unweighted mean of cells
mot_median	DOUBLE	motorised minutes, unweighted median of cells
mot_popw_mean	DOUBLE	motorised minutes, population-weighted mean
mot_popw_median	DOUBLE	motorised minutes, population-weighted median
wal_mean	DOUBLE	walking minutes, unweighted mean
wal_median	DOUBLE	walking minutes, unweighted median
wal_popw_mean	DOUBLE	walking minutes, population-weighted mean
wal_popw_median	DOUBLE	walking minutes, population-weighted median
mot_pct_pop_gt30	DOUBLE	% of people more than 30 motorised minutes from care
mot_pct_pop_gt60	DOUBLE	% more than 60 motorised minutes
mot_pct_pop_gt120	DOUBLE	% more than 120 motorised minutes
wal_pct_pop_gt30	DOUBLE	% more than 30 walking minutes
wal_pct_pop_gt60	DOUBLE	% more than 60 walking minutes
wal_pct_pop_gt120	DOUBLE	% more than 120 walking minutes
release	VARCHAR	release tag

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Hiba Sameen / Data Darbar. Pakistan district travel time to the nearest health facility. https://darbar.adaad.org/datasets/health-access-district/. Cite the original source listed above and the catalogue release when reusing this table.

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