Jamaica Risk Assessment Indicators: District-Level Hazard and Demographic Data

Delivering risk assessment indicators for Jamaica at the administrative level 2 (district) to support flood and cyclone hazard analysis. Produced by HeiGIT using the GAIA pipeline, it integrates data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine as of March 2026. The collection includes eight thematic CSV files covering demographics, infrastructure, and hazard exposure.

Use Cases

• Analyzing healthcare accessibility by comparing access_pop_hospitals_30min against total population counts
• Estimating disaster vulnerability using demographic columns like children_u5 and elderly at the district level
• Planning emergency response infrastructure by mapping education_count and primary_healthcare_count across ADM2 boundaries

Strengths

• Multi-source integration from WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine
• Standardized administrative coding using ADM2_PCODE for GIS joining
• Granular demographic breakdowns including age-specific and gender-specific population counts

Limitations

• Facility counts like hospitals_count are dependent on OpenStreetMap completeness, which may vary by region
• Coping Capacity and Vulnerability indicators are derived aggregates rather than primary survey data
• Temporal staleness may occur as infrastructure and population distributions change faster than the underlying source updates

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Aggregated from open data sources including WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine via the GAIA Pipeline.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; frequency of GAIA pipeline updates is not specified.

Geography

Jamaica (Admin Level 2)