Ecuador Risk Assessment Indicators: Admin Level 2 Flood and Demographic Data

HeiGIT produced these risk assessment indicators for Ecuador at the admin level 2 (district) scale in 2026. The data aggregates demographic, infrastructure, and flood hazard metrics from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine to facilitate disaster resilience planning.

Use Cases

• Identifying districts with low healthcare resilience by analyzing access_pop_hospitals_2h
• Prioritizing disaster relief for vulnerable populations using children_u5 and elderly counts
• Mapping educational infrastructure gaps using education_count across different cantons

Strengths

• Admin level 2 granularity for sub-national analysis
• Standardized ADM2_PCODE fields for easy GIS integration
• Multi-source integration of WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• OpenStreetMap facility counts like education_count may be incomplete in remote rural areas
• Travel time metrics (e.g., access_pop_primary_healthcare_30min) depend on the accuracy of the openrouteservice road network graph
• Demographic data is derived from WorldPop estimates rather than a primary national census

Provenance

Source

Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) GAIA Pipeline

Collection Method

Aggregated from secondary open data sources including WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated as of March 2026; utilizes recent outputs from the GAIA pipeline.

Geography

Ecuador (National)