Mexico Risk Assessment Indicators for Flood Hazards at Admin Level 2

Seven indicator layers for Mexico, aggregated at admin level 2, derived from HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline. The data integrates open sources including WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine, and was last updated on 2026-04-13. It includes measures for access to services, facility counts, coping capacity, demographics, rural population, vulnerability, and flood exposure.

Use Cases

• Modeling flood risk exposure based on the flood_exposure indicator layer.
• Assessing community coping capacity based on combined access and facilities data.
• Analyzing demographic vulnerability for disaster planning based on age and gender composition.
• Mapping accessibility to healthcare and education services using travel-time and distance metrics.

Strengths

• Includes seven distinct thematic layers covering demographics, infrastructure, and hazard exposure.
• Aggregated at a standardized administrative level (ADM2) using HDX COD-AB boundaries.
• Derived from established open data sources like WorldPop and OpenStreetMap via a documented pipeline.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation for the rural_population layer is absent.

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Derived from HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline integrating WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 16:29:24.570291; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mexico