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Countries Ranked by Land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

Showing every country with available data for 2015 • World Bank: AG.LND.EL5M.ZS

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area) data for 2015, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 215 countries reporting, the median value is 1.53, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Marshall Islands

81.70

Europe & Central Asia

Netherlands

52.01

Latin America & Caribbean

Bahamas, The

69.74

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Bahrain

33.81

North America

Bermuda

35.96

South Asia

Maldives

80.48

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

26.05

Rank Country Land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
1 Marshall Islands 81.70
2 Maldives 80.48
3 Bahamas, The 69.74
4 Tuvalu 68.02
5 Kiribati 67.59
6 Turks and Caicos Islands 63.31
7 Cayman Islands 53.40
8 Netherlands 52.01
9 Gibraltar 47.70
10 Macao SAR, China 46.88
11 British Virgin Islands 41.89
12 Bermuda 35.96
13 Bahrain 33.81
14 French Polynesia 30.05
15 St. Martin (French part) 26.89
16 Seychelles 26.05
17 Monaco 21.09
18 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 20.29
19 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 19.21
20 Gambia, The 18.92
21 American Samoa 18.06
22 Tonga 17.54
23 Antigua and Barbuda 17.24
24 Guinea-Bissau 16.04
25 Palau 16.02
26 Viet Nam 15.94
27 Bangladesh 15.87
28 Cuba 14.94
29 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 14.55
30 Nauru 13.51
31 Denmark 13.40
32 Hong Kong SAR, China 13.31
33 Northern Mariana Islands 12.88
34 Belize 12.45
35 Qatar 11.56
36 Aruba 10.39
37 Singapore 9.76
38 Kuwait 8.59
39 Fiji 8.30
40 St. Kitts and Nevis 8.11
41 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 7.84
42 Grenada 7.82
43 Indonesia 7.71
44 Trinidad and Tobago 7.30
45 Solomon Islands 7.29
46 Curacao 7.27
47 Malta 7.09
48 Malaysia 6.89
49 Puerto Rico (US) 6.79
50 Suriname 6.36
51 Nicaragua 5.89
52 Brunei Darussalam 5.50
53 Cabo Verde 5.43
54 New Caledonia 5.41
55 Belgium 5.40
56 Sierra Leone 5.26
57 Guyana 5.22
58 Greenland 5.10
59 Guam 4.95
60 Jamaica 4.80
61 Philippines 4.65
62 New Zealand 4.63
63 St. Lucia 4.62
64 Myanmar 4.51
65 Honduras 4.49
66 Panama 4.49
67 Senegal 4.35
68 Thailand 4.24
69 Vanuatu 4.22
70 United Arab Emirates 4.09
71 United Kingdom 4.06
72 Comoros 4.02
73 Papua New Guinea 3.84
74 Isle of Man 3.82
75 Albania 3.76
76 El Salvador 3.63
77 Mauritius 3.52
78 Sri Lanka 3.48
79 Estonia 3.44
80 Greece 3.41
81 Sao Tome and Principe 3.40
82 Germany 3.31
83 Italy 3.28
84 Japan 3.25
85 Barbados 3.23
86 Dominica 2.99
87 Korea, Rep. 2.98
88 Costa Rica 2.93
89 Iraq 2.88
90 Faroe Islands 2.76
91 Mexico 2.68
92 Dominican Republic 2.43
93 Haiti 2.34
94 Cyprus 2.13
95 Samoa 2.11
96 Nigeria 2.11
97 Mozambique 2.06
98 Ireland 2.05
99 Latvia 1.88
100 Iceland 1.86
101 Cambodia 1.74
102 Portugal 1.69
103 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 1.67
104 Croatia 1.61
105 Norway 1.60
106 Venezuela, RB 1.57
107 Timor-Leste 1.56
108 Chile 1.53
109 Egypt, Arab Rep. 1.51
110 France 1.49
111 Tunisia 1.47
112 United States 1.46
113 Gabon 1.43
114 Georgia 1.40
115 Romania 1.39
116 Guinea 1.38
117 Pakistan 1.31
118 Ecuador 1.29
119 Eritrea 1.28
120 Madagascar 1.26
121 India 1.25
122 Finland 1.22
123 Benin 1.14
124 Colombia 1.13
125 Liberia 1.10
126 Mauritania 1.08
127 Poland 1.06
128 Sweden 1.00
129 Brazil 0.85
130 Ukraine 0.82
131 China 0.82
132 Equatorial Guinea 0.82
133 Spain 0.82
134 Oman 0.79
135 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.78
136 Djibouti 0.75
137 Guatemala 0.73
138 Australia 0.73
139 Ghana 0.73
140 Montenegro 0.70
141 Lithuania 0.70
142 Russian Federation 0.67
143 Canada 0.65
144 Lebanon 0.62
145 Argentina 0.62
146 Uruguay 0.61
147 Turkiye 0.57
148 Cote d'Ivoire 0.51
149 Israel 0.49
150 Libya 0.48
151 Cameroon 0.46
152 Togo 0.41
153 Yemen, Rep. 0.39
154 Saudi Arabia 0.38
155 Peru 0.30
156 Kenya 0.27
157 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.24
158 Congo, Rep. 0.23
159 Morocco 0.22
160 Namibia 0.20
161 Tanzania 0.17
162 Angola 0.16
163 West Bank and Gaza 0.15
164 Bulgaria 0.14
165 South Africa 0.11
166 Slovenia 0.11
167 Sudan 0.08
168 Syrian Arab Republic 0.03
169 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.03
170 Algeria 0.03
171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.01
172 Jordan 0.00
173 Zimbabwe 0.00
174 Moldova 0.00
175 Mali 0.00
176 Malawi 0.00
177 Nepal 0.00
178 Luxembourg 0.00
179 Liechtenstein 0.00
180 Niger 0.00
181 Lesotho 0.00
182 North Macedonia 0.00
183 Lao PDR 0.00
184 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
185 Kazakhstan 0.00
186 Paraguay 0.00
187 Hungary 0.00
188 Ethiopia 0.00
189 Rwanda 0.00
190 Eswatini 0.00
191 San Marino 0.00
192 Serbia 0.00
193 Czechia 0.00
194 Slovak Republic 0.00
195 South Sudan 0.00
196 Chad 0.00
197 Central African Republic 0.00
198 Burundi 0.00
199 Burkina Faso 0.00
200 Switzerland 0.00
201 Tajikistan 0.00
202 Afghanistan 0.00
203 Botswana 0.00
204 Bolivia 0.00
205 Bhutan 0.00
206 Turkmenistan 0.00
207 Belarus 0.00
208 Azerbaijan 0.00
209 Uganda 0.00
210 Austria 0.00
211 Armenia 0.00
212 Uzbekistan 0.00
213 Andorra 0.00
214 Zambia 0.00
215 Mongolia 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (AG.LND.EL5M.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2015; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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