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Economic Value Mapping
The CopLAC Economic Value Mapping Service is a geospatial tool developed under the CopernicusLAC program to quantify the economic value of exposed assets across Latin America and the Caribbean. It combines Earth Observation data with economic and statistical information to generate per-pixel value maps that support disaster risk reduction, resilience building, and sustainable planning

Find EVM service description and specifications here, and the full tutorial in here

Default Economic values

The Economic Value Mapping service is based on geospatial data and statistical and economic values of each country in Latin America and the Caribbean.

For a detailed information on the geospatial data used, please refer to the service specifications.

Regarding the economic data, the service relies on two types of data sources:

  • Default values : Predefined estimates of asset values at the national level, available in here.

  • User-provided values: Custom inputs that can either: -Replace the national defaults for the entire country, or -Specify local values for the selected area of interest

These asset values represent the economic exposure of different components. The categories include:

  • Private Housing : Residential buildings such as homes and apartments.

  • Household Content : Furniture, appliances, and household goods inside homes.

  • Industrial Buildings and Equipment : Factories, warehouses, and machinery.

  • Services and Trade Buildings and Equipment : Offices, schools, hospitals, shops, and related equipment.

  • Agricultural Buildings and Equipment : Farm structures and machinery.

  • Industrial Inventories : Goods and materials stored by manufacturing industries.

  • Services and Trade Inventories : Stock held by service providers and trade businesses.

  • Vehicles : Cars, trucks, and other motor vehicles.

  • Livestock : Animals used for meat, dairy, and related products.

  • Agricultural Stocks: Stored crops and agricultural products.

  • Roads: The existing road network.

  • Railways: The railway network.

  • Others (Green Spaces, Wetlands, Forests): Natural areas and forest resources.

The next table depicts the default economic values for user information:

country industrial_building services_building agricultural_building industrial_inventories services_inventories vehicles private_housing household_content livestock agriculture_stocks others roads rails
ATG 109399973,8 445335532,1 29258500 380840740,7 1385229630 2151192914 1635227926 327045585,2 9056000 23401000 18000 363488 0
ARG 78277988670 1,60E+11 79627319507 1,64E+11 3,47E+11 8,22E+11 1,06E+12 2,12E+11 5498350000 8866694000 137268000 58673538 101377420
BHS 2423678828 14821163645 227112193 1493100000 11996900000 12287301224 18370460450 3674092090 0 0 228000 976114 0
BRB 969193800 2578555512 79834424 890283615 5070397375 5083708767 9119987533 1823997507 94845000 128315000 9000 571267 52141,74691
BLZ 638725785,1 1310230796 173638082 437550000 1913250000 2650053788 4349336113 869867222,5 98046000 687844000 2041000 821172 0
BOL 2739666485 24137275871 6734566569 10935465873 23043847493 66475308620 1,37E+11 27484574895 4415984000 11488257000 73950000 21582762 10366149
BRA 1,73E+11 6,77E+11 88219131566 4,86E+11 5,02E+11 3,19E+12 4,45E+12 8,90E+11 67718762000 4,09E+11 1303183000 422508740 99582107
CHL 88198578775 1,37E+11 18696684528 96692888370 1,93E+11 2,00E+11 7,01E+11 1,40E+11 5318239000 27987166000 984642000 24809319 33014695
COL 69845102354 1,16E+11 19463017327 91005066428 2,09E+11 6,25E+11 7,29E+11 1,46E+11 21539973000 49372397000 24805000 42523948 6999179
CRI 21433403160 24160801103 7915409637 17708738633 58852178319 1,14E+11 1,43E+11 28597611913 1060021000 10973659000 29685000 1151695 999165
CUB 25196842961 28351135963 3671045828 2543048469 6480505952 10250578486 1,59E+11 31727758121 6167500852 26199922630 11000 1483535 16272927
DMA 71267619,62 163744988 75593430 84062962,96 384503703,7 525924731,6 870665393,2 174133078,6 6167500852 26199922630 11000 350556 0
DOM 27222999823 36947006623 3902197998 35301445572 71775783230 2,46E+11 2,26E+11 45169556433 1629745000 18485887000 315000 4250355 1681066
ECU 36411312274 63429439909 7021204204 33406817000 71018331000 1,05E+11 5,08E+11 1,02E+11 4432652000 12211421000 165684000 8568656 3006421
SLV 13732257824 17989025285 4009446879 7848860000 20570270000 32083067709 1,00E+11 20030991829 995933000 1914193000 3364000 1627691 36893
GRD 159889590 450693936 85273347 197570370,4 869592592,6 1213028628 2804949406 560989881,1 39085000 85722000 0 375277 0
GTM 18584622721 24732221111 14015144135 23280872148 64085527632 1,30E+11 1,87E+11 37476381551 6167500852 26199922630 30991000 3062497 2184688
GUY 817905625 975957692,3 952755789 11724738609 3175127098 4522265454 5214003239 1042800648 27384000 2036076000 17077000 953940 0
HTI 837197495,4 7688335263 7202273153 3968120000 15872480000 695829510,9 59865313557 11973062711 6167500852 26199922630 30000 260541 8605,919392
HND 14231286984 21621280298 16680657637 8866499346 19766274567 67538796863 1,38E+11 27558756989 1181701000 4072361000 77438000 3127417 0
JAM 6008817664 13258094478 790751511 3581651945 12826020608 21412979057 67941055684 13588211137 470017000 4003485000 161000 6475165 2937993,383
MEX 2,23E+11 1,06E+12 36820155303 5,87E+11 1,04E+12 2,11E+12 3,63E+12 7,26E+11 35666895000 94392641000 95310000 258050980 130859185
NIC 6662341891 9667248834 3161029052 4842763502 8278269457 41808467774 77869098043 15573819609 1507623000 3514908000 6923000 3996046 0
PAN 14182261868 18702674661 2575368234 23179756951 56063311555 51503103345 92209241580 18441848316 2038461000 2266393000 59839000 3372795 282089
PRY 8969129434 9404197204 8336797512 14178972522 20751947724 1,19E+11 60282944353 12056588871 2463369000 14036640000 8231470 3353986 95070
PER 44419017277 86891078767 27088403449 90719358031 1,37E+11 1,78E+11 6,32E+11 1,26E+11 6846207000 26402072000 47314000 36225001 6010010
KNA 103842858,6 242119479,6 16827637 226492592,6 689511111,1 1051285462 983929175,1 196785835 882000 25017000 24000 119351 244823
VCT 50883722,51 551665290,1 41425719 158125925,9 711811111,1 1161539557 1439942226 287988445,3 12507000 165311000 3160 370487 2868,639797
LCA 132754582,3 381409495,8 43437679 235359259,3 1210614815 1286275136 2931215079 586243015,8 22596000 111596000 0 338840 0
SUR 300793750 362139766,5 508721901 1377334502 1668496302 5219730616 2091898385 418379677 35297000 348741000 66302000 703770 0
TTO 6244716665 4132473138 302667188 8639055306 15105511486 32527667990 44065869130 8813173826 209015000 251148000 453000 416540 0
URY 9648005769 11030121364 9345851566 13062778743 51193949152 83570636640 63603512759 12720702552 3189878000 4447318000 447885000 26178597 8853130
VEN 63606906938 65281897799 10207886558 27220160000 1,09E+11 1,26E+11 3,94E+11 78888148282 6167500852 26199922630 111974863,4 21098500 1540593

Warning

DISCLAIMER: The default values for Private Housing, Industrial Buildings and Equipment, and Services and Trade Buildings and Equipment are sourced from the Global Exposure Model (GEM), published by the GEM Foundation under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Original data © GEM Foundation

The values for the fields Infrastructure and Vehicles have been obtained from official sources either directly where available or by applying official price level indices to ensure consistency across countries.

All remaining fields are based on authoritative sources sources such as FAO and CEPAL.

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