Rwanda - Accessibility Indicators
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- Title
- Rwanda - Accessibility Indicators
- Description
- This dataset provides insights into spatial accessibility to healthcare and education services across Rwanda. It has been created using free and open tools such as [openrouteservice](https://openrouteservice.org/) and open data sources, primarily [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/) (OSM). To assess accessibility to education and healthcare, we use travel-time isochrones—polygons representing areas reachable within a given time or distance by car. We overlay these isochrones with [WorldPop](https://www.worldpop.org/) population data, which provides 100m-resolution estimates. This allows us to calculate the population within time intervals from 10 to 120 minutes away from hospital services and distance intervals from 5 to 50 km away from schools. The unit of analysis is defined by [geoboundaries](https://www.geoboundaries.org/) country borders, and where available we also summarise results at finer administrative levels (ADM 1-4). Data Structure: - **name**: Region or country name. - **iso**: ISO3 country code. - **id**: Unique identifier for the administrative unit. - **country**: ISO3 country code. - **admin_level**: Administrative level of the unit. - **category**: Service category — `education`, `hospitals` or `primary_healthcare`. - **range_type**: Method used for the catchment zone — `distance` or `time`. - **range**: Distance (in meters) or Time away (in seconds) from schools used to generate the polygon. - **population**: Total population within the specified range. - **school_age_population**: Number of school-age individuals within the range. - **school_age_population_share**: Cumulative percentage of school-age population. - **school_age_population_interval**: Incremental school-age population added in the current distance band. - **school_age_population_interval_share**: Proportion of new school-age population in the current interval. - **population_share**: Cumulative percentage of total population. - **population_interval**: Incremental population added in the current distance band. - **population_interval_share**: Share of the total population represented by the current interval. This dataset is one of many [HeiGIT exports on HDX](https://data.humdata.org/organization/heidelberg-institute-for-geoinformation-technology). See the [HeiGIT](https://heigit.org/) website for more information. We are looking forward to hearing about your use-case! Feel free to reach out to us and tell us about your research at [communications@heigit.org](mailto:communications@heigit.org) - we would be happy to amplify your work. References: - [Geldsetzer, P., Reinmuth, M., Ouma, P. O., Lautenbach, S. et al. (2020)](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(20)30010-6/fulltext) - [Petricola, S., Reinmuth, M., Lautenbach, S. et al. (2022)](https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-022-00315-2) - [Klipper, I. G., Zipf, A., and Lautenbach, S. (2021)](https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/2/4/2021/) - [Ruiz Sánchez, R., Reinmuth, M., Albornoz, C., Lautenbach, S., and Zipf, A. (2025)](https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/6/10/2025/) Further Information: - [Open Healthcare Access Map](https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/#/)
- Creator
- HeiGIT
- Publisher
- Humanitarian Data Exchange
- Temporal Coverage
- 2025-11-08
- Date Issued
- 2025-11-08
- License
- http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa
- Access Rights
- Public
- Date Added
- November 17, 2025
- Provenance Statement
- The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-11-20.
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HeiGIT (2025). Rwanda - Accessibility Indicators. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/802d7d12-68a6-4aac-a3f8-a1e212e98bad (dataset) -
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