Nicaragua Risk Assessment: District-Level Hazard and Accessibility Indicators

Nicaragua Risk Assessment Indicators provide district-level data for flood and cyclone hazards across eight thematic categories including demographics and infrastructure. Developed by the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) via the GAIA Pipeline, the dataset aggregates information from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Evaluating disaster resilience by correlating elderly population counts with NIC_ADM2_flood_exposure
• Identifying gaps in medical coverage using access_pop_primary_healthcare_30min
• Quantifying educational infrastructure using education_count per district

Strengths

• Aggregated at administrative level 2 (district) for localized analysis
• Includes travel-time accessibility metrics for hospitals and primary care
• Integrates high-resolution WorldPop demographic data

Limitations

• Potential under-representation of facilities in rural areas due to OpenStreetMap crowdsourcing gaps
• Temporal alignment varies between sources like WorldPop and OpenStreetMap

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Nicaragua