World Development Indicators


Exposure to impact
Land area where elevation is below 5 meters	Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters	Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters	Rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters	Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters	Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters
% of land area	% of total population	% of rural land area	% of rural population	% of urban land area	% of urban population
2015	2015	2015	2015	2015	2015

Algeria	0.0	1.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	1.1
Afghanistan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Albania	3.8	9.2	3.5	2.8	0.2	6.4
American Samoa	18.1	4.6	17.4	4.1	0.7	0.5
Andorra	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Angola	0.2	1.5	0.2	0.3	0.0	1.2
Antigua and Barbuda	17.2	12.2	16.5	8.2	0.8	4.0
Argentina	0.6	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.9
Armenia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Aruba	10.4	5.0	6.3	0.4	4.1	4.6
Australia	0.7	3.6	0.7	0.9	0.0	2.7
Austria	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Azerbaijan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bahamas, The	69.7	12.9	69.5	8.8	0.2	4.0
Bahrain	33.8	33.0	17.6	1.0	16.2	32.0
Bangladesh	15.9	8.4	10.7	2.3	5.2	6.1
Barbados	3.2	2.2	1.8	0.4	1.4	1.8
Belarus	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Belgium	5.4	5.5	3.7	1.3	1.7	4.2
Belize	12.5	33.9	12.3	5.4	0.2	28.5
Benin	1.1	7.3	0.9	1.3	0.2	6.0
Bermuda	36.0	7.2	18.0	2.3	17.9	4.9
Bhutan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bolivia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Botswana	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Brazil	0.9	2.2	0.8	0.5	0.0	1.7
British Virgin Islands	41.9	12.7	40.6	8.4	1.3	4.3
Brunei Darussalam	5.5	20.9	4.9	6.9	0.6	13.9
Bulgaria	0.1	1.3	0.1	0.2	0.0	1.2
Burkina Faso	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Burundi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cabo Verde	5.4	6.5	5.3	5.4	0.1	1.0
Cambodia	1.7	2.0	1.7	1.3	0.0	0.7
Cameroon	0.5	2.3	0.5	0.4	0.0	1.9
Canada	0.6	1.4	0.6	0.5	0.0	0.9
Cayman Islands	53.4	17.6	49.4	6.5	4.0	11.1
Central African Republic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chad	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	1.5	1.0	1.5	0.3	0.0	0.7
China	0.8	4.9	0.5	0.5	0.4	4.4
Hong Kong SAR, China	13.3	7.3	6.8	0.6	6.5	6.7
Macao SAR, China	46.9	17.2	14.1	0.8	32.8	16.5
Colombia	1.1	2.3	1.1	0.6	0.0	1.8
Comoros	4.0	3.2	3.4	1.1	0.6	2.1
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Congo, Rep.	0.2	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.7
Costa Rica	2.9	2.0	2.9	1.0	0.1	1.0
Cote d'Ivoire	0.5	3.3	0.5	0.5	0.0	2.7
Croatia	1.6	4.3	1.5	1.9	0.1	2.4
Cuba	14.9	2.5	14.8	1.0	0.1	1.5
Curacao	7.3	1.7	6.4	0.3	0.9	1.4
Cyprus	2.1	4.0	1.8	1.5	0.3	2.6
Czechia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Denmark	13.4	12.6	12.6	3.9	0.8	8.6
Djibouti	0.7	11.1	0.7	2.5	0.0	8.6
Dominica	3.0	12.9	2.6	5.9	0.4	7.0
Dominican Republic	2.4	1.8	2.3	0.5	0.1	1.4
Ecuador	1.3	7.2	1.2	0.9	0.1	6.4
Egypt, Arab Rep.	1.5	16.3	1.0	2.6	0.5	13.8
El Salvador	3.6	0.9	3.6	0.6	0.1	0.3
Equatorial Guinea	0.8	5.7	0.8	0.8	0.1	4.9
Eritrea	1.3	15.5	1.3	0.6	0.0	14.9
Estonia	3.4	2.6	3.4	1.3	0.0	1.3
Eswatini	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ethiopia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Faroe Islands	2.8	2.7	2.8	2.7	0.0	0.0
Fiji	8.3	18.3	8.2	14.8	0.1	3.5
Finland	1.2	4.6	1.2	1.7	0.0	2.9
France	1.5	2.1	1.4	0.8	0.1	1.3
French Polynesia	30.0	14.6	29.8	11.1	0.3	3.5
Gabon	1.4	9.5	1.4	1.6	0.0	7.9
Gambia, The	18.9	4.3	18.7	2.4	0.2	1.9
Georgia	1.4	3.9	1.3	0.8	0.1	3.0
Germany	3.3	2.0	3.1	0.8	0.2	1.2
Ghana	0.7	2.1	0.6	0.7	0.1	1.4
Gibraltar	47.7	56.4	0.6	1.1	47.1	55.3
Greece	3.4	5.1	3.3	2.2	0.2	2.9
Greenland	5.1	59.9	5.1	43.5	0.0	16.4
Grenada	7.8	5.9	5.8	1.7	2.0	4.1
Guam	4.9	2.4	4.6	1.7	0.3	0.7
Guatemala	0.7	0.2	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.1
Guinea	1.4	2.3	1.3	0.9	0.0	1.5
Guinea-Bissau	16.0	4.5	16.0	3.3	0.1	1.2
Guyana	5.2	78.5	5.1	26.5	0.1	52.0
Haiti	2.3	4.1	2.1	1.1	0.2	2.9
Honduras	4.5	1.8	4.5	1.2	0.0	0.6
Hungary	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iceland	1.9	11.3	1.8	5.0	0.0	6.3
India	1.3	1.9	1.0	0.4	0.2	1.4
Indonesia	7.7	8.8	7.4	2.4	0.3	6.4
Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.8
Iraq	2.9	4.6	2.8	1.1	0.1	3.5
Ireland	2.1	2.8	2.0	1.2	0.1	1.6
Isle of Man	3.8	6.0	3.4	2.4	0.4	3.6
Israel	0.5	1.7	0.2	0.1	0.3	1.6
Italy	3.3	3.8	2.9	1.1	0.4	2.7
Jamaica	4.8	9.2	3.7	1.8	1.1	7.3
Japan	3.3	12.4	1.5	0.9	1.8	11.6
Jordan	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kazakhstan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kenya	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.2
Kiribati	67.6	33.5	67.2	20.2	0.4	13.3
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	1.7	4.9	1.5	1.5	0.1	3.4
Korea, Rep.	3.0	2.1	2.5	0.6	0.4	1.6
Kosovo	..	..	..	..	..	..
Kuwait	8.6	4.8	8.1	0.8	0.5	3.9
Kyrgyz Republic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lao PDR	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Latvia	1.9	10.2	1.7	2.3	0.1	8.0
Lebanon	0.6	3.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	2.8
Lesotho	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Liberia	1.1	11.7	1.0	2.2	0.1	9.5
Libya	0.5	6.8	0.5	1.0	0.0	5.8
Liechtenstein	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lithuania	0.7	1.5	0.7	0.4	0.0	1.1
Luxembourg	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Madagascar	1.3	4.3	1.2	2.2	0.0	2.1
Malawi	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malaysia	6.9	10.1	6.4	3.6	0.5	6.5
Maldives	80.5	49.2	76.6	31.0	3.9	18.2
Mali	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Malta	7.1	2.4	5.1	0.5	2.0	1.8
Marshall Islands	81.7	68.0	79.4	31.7	2.3	36.3
Mauritania	1.1	21.0	1.1	1.5	0.0	19.5
Mauritius	3.5	1.7	2.7	0.5	0.9	1.2
Mexico	2.7	1.1	2.7	0.4	0.0	0.6
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	20.3	23.2	20.0	19.9	0.3	3.3
Moldova	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Monaco	21.1	7.9	1.2	0.6	19.8	7.3
Mongolia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Montenegro	0.7	4.4	0.6	1.6	0.1	2.8
Morocco	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.3	0.0	1.2
Mozambique	2.1	2.8	2.0	1.5	0.0	1.3
Myanmar	4.5	6.8	4.5	3.5	0.1	3.4
Namibia	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1
Nauru	13.5	16.6	7.6	9.1	5.9	7.4
Nepal	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Netherlands	52.0	53.7	39.7	9.9	12.3	43.8
New Caledonia	5.4	10.9	5.3	5.5	0.1	5.3
New Zealand	4.6	3.3	4.6	1.1	0.0	2.2
Nicaragua	5.9	1.8	5.9	0.9	0.0	0.9
Niger	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nigeria	2.1	3.5	2.0	0.8	0.1	2.7
North Macedonia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Northern Mariana Islands	12.9	6.3	12.6	3.0	0.3	3.3
Norway	1.6	7.2	1.6	4.3	0.0	2.9
Oman	0.8	6.8	0.7	1.8	0.0	5.1
Pakistan	1.3	0.4	1.3	0.2	0.0	0.2
Palau	16.0	12.3	15.7	9.5	0.4	2.8
Panama	4.5	6.0	4.4	2.7	0.1	3.3
Papua New Guinea	3.8	7.6	3.8	2.8	0.0	4.8
Paraguay	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Peru	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.4
Philippines	4.6	10.5	4.1	4.6	0.5	5.9
Poland	1.1	1.6	1.0	0.5	0.1	1.1
Portugal	1.7	1.3	1.6	0.5	0.1	0.8
Puerto Rico	6.8	8.1	4.8	1.1	2.0	7.0
Qatar	11.6	6.7	10.7	0.9	0.9	5.9
Romania	1.4	0.3	1.4	0.1	0.0	0.2
Russian Federation	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.7
Rwanda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Samoa	2.1	8.8	2.0	7.4	0.1	1.4
San Marino	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sao Tome and Principe	3.4	2.0	3.3	0.5	0.1	1.6
Saudi Arabia	0.4	3.2	0.4	0.7	0.0	2.5
Senegal	4.3	7.0	4.3	2.2	0.1	4.8
Serbia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Seychelles	26.1	28.5	25.1	15.2	1.0	13.3
Sierra Leone	5.3	3.5	5.2	2.3	0.1	1.2
Singapore	9.8	0.7	6.6	0.0	3.2	0.7
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	19.2	8.1	8.0	3.6	11.2	4.5
Slovak Republic	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Slovenia	0.1	1.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	1.3
Solomon Islands	7.3	17.9	7.3	16.1	0.0	1.8
Somalia	0.2	3.5	0.2	0.8	0.0	2.7
South Africa	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
South Sudan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Spain	0.8	4.0	0.6	0.6	0.2	3.4
Sri Lanka	3.5	3.8	3.1	1.5	0.4	2.4
St. Kitts and Nevis	8.1	7.4	7.5	4.5	0.6	3.0
St. Lucia	4.6	3.2	3.5	1.3	1.1	1.9
St. Martin (French part)	26.9	28.7	14.2	3.1	12.7	25.6
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	7.8	5.1	6.9	3.8	0.9	1.3
Sudan	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.4
Suriname	6.4	71.3	6.2	17.8	0.1	53.5
Sweden	1.0	5.1	0.9	1.7	0.1	3.4
Switzerland	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Syrian Arab Republic	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.3
Tajikistan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tanzania	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.1
Thailand	4.2	17.5	3.5	2.8	0.8	14.7
Timor-Leste	1.6	3.0	1.5	1.9	0.0	1.1
Togo	0.4	1.1	0.3	0.2	0.1	1.0
Tonga	17.5	17.5	16.7	6.1	0.8	11.4
Trinidad and Tobago	7.3	4.0	6.3	1.1	1.0	3.0
Tunisia	1.5	8.9	1.3	1.0	0.2	8.0
Turkiye	0.6	2.6	0.5	0.5	0.1	2.1
Turkmenistan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Turks and Caicos Islands	63.3	20.8	62.9	14.7	0.4	6.0
Tuvalu	68.0	39.3	68.0	39.3	0.0	0.0
Uganda	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ukraine	0.8	1.1	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.8
United Arab Emirates	4.1	26.7	3.4	1.2	0.7	25.5
United Kingdom	4.1	2.7	3.7	0.7	0.3	2.1
United States	1.5	2.0	1.4	0.5	0.1	1.5
Uruguay	0.6	2.2	0.6	0.3	0.0	1.9
Uzbekistan	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vanuatu	4.2	10.1	4.2	8.3	0.0	1.8
Venezuela, RB	1.6	4.1	1.5	0.8	0.0	3.2
Viet Nam	15.9	29.7	12.3	7.2	3.7	22.5
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	14.6	4.7	12.5	2.6	2.1	2.1
West Bank and Gaza	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2
Yemen, Rep.	0.4	1.6	0.4	0.6	0.0	1.0
Zambia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Zimbabwe	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
World	1.1	4.1	1.0	0.9	0.1	3.2
East Asia & Pacific	1.9	7.4	1.7	1.4	0.3	6.0
Europe & Central Asia	0.9	3.0	0.8	0.8	0.0	2.2
Latin America & Caribbean	1.3	2.2	1.3	0.6	0.0	1.6
Middle East & North Africa	0.6	6.0	0.6	0.9	0.1	5.1
North America	1.1	1.9	1.0	0.5	0.0	1.4
South Asia	1.5	2.3	1.2	0.6	0.3	1.7
Sub-Saharan Africa	0.4	1.7	0.4	0.4	0.0	1.2
Low income	0.3	1.0	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.6
Lower middle income	1.7	4.1	1.6	1.1	0.2	3.1
Upper middle income	0.9	4.6	0.8	0.8	0.1	3.8
High income	1.3	4.2	1.2	0.8	0.1	3.4

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