Cape Verde Risk Assessment Indicators: District-Level Hazard and Accessibility Data

HeiGIT produced this dataset in March 2026 to provide district-level risk indicators for Cape Verde across eight thematic areas including demographics and hazard exposure. It aggregates data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine to facilitate structured assessments for flood and cyclone resilience.

Use Cases

• Calculating the percentage of the population within 30 minutes of a hospital using access_pop_hospitals_30min
• Identifying districts with high concentrations of vulnerable residents using the elderly and children_u5 columns
• Quantifying educational infrastructure density per district via the education_count field

Strengths

• Integrates high-resolution WorldPop demographic data
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics at 30, 60, and 120-minute intervals
• Uses standardized HDX COD-AB administrative boundaries for interoperability

Limitations

• Potential data gaps in rural infrastructure counts due to reliance on OpenStreetMap crowdsourcing
• Aggregated format prevents household-level risk analysis
• Temporal relevance of hazard exposure layers depends on Google Earth Engine update cycles

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Cape Verde