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

HeiGIT provides risk assessment indicators for Uruguay at the administrative level 2 (districts) to support flood hazard analysis. The dataset integrates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility data derived from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling healthcare accessibility by analyzing the access_pop_hospitals_30min column
• Disaster response planning using children_u5 and elderly demographic counts to identify high-risk groups
• Infrastructure resilience assessment by comparing education_count against flood exposure indicators

Strengths

• Admin level 2 granularity for sub-national analysis
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics (30min, 1h, 2h) for healthcare
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OSM, and Google Earth Engine

Limitations

• Facility counts (hospitals_count) are dependent on OpenStreetMap contributor density
• Specific flood exposure values are aggregated and may mask local variations

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Uruguay (Admin Level 2)