Costa Rica Risk Assessment Indicators at Admin Level 2

HeiGIT produced these risk assessment indicators for Costa Rica at the administrative level 2 (districts) to support flood and cyclone hazard analysis. The data integrates metrics from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine, covering demographics, infrastructure, and accessibility. It was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Evaluating healthcare resilience by analyzing 'access_pop_hospitals_30min' across districts
• Planning disaster evacuations using 'children_u5' and 'elderly' demographic counts
• Mapping infrastructure density using 'education_count' and 'primary_healthcare_count'

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 for localized district-level analysis
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine
• Provides specific travel-time accessibility indicators for healthcare and education

Limitations

• Facility counts like 'hospitals_count' are subject to OpenStreetMap data completeness which may vary by region
• Specific columns for flood and cyclone exposure layers are not enumerated in the documentation

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; update frequency not specified.

Geography

Costa Rica