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Countries Ranked by Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)

Showing every country with available data for 2015 • World Bank: EN.POP.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 population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) 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 2.95, 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

67.97

Europe & Central Asia

Greenland

59.86

Latin America & Caribbean

Guyana

78.48

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Bahrain

32.98

North America

Bermuda

7.23

South Asia

Maldives

49.17

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

28.48

Rank Country Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)
1 Guyana 78.48
2 Suriname 71.28
3 Marshall Islands 67.97
4 Greenland 59.86
5 Gibraltar 56.41
6 Netherlands 53.69
7 Maldives 49.17
8 Tuvalu 39.27
9 Belize 33.86
10 Kiribati 33.53
11 Bahrain 32.98
12 Viet Nam 29.67
13 St. Martin (French part) 28.68
14 Seychelles 28.48
15 United Arab Emirates 26.72
16 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 23.22
17 Mauritania 21.00
18 Brunei Darussalam 20.87
19 Turks and Caicos Islands 20.76
20 Fiji 18.26
21 Solomon Islands 17.86
22 Cayman Islands 17.62
23 Tonga 17.50
24 Thailand 17.47
25 Macao SAR, China 17.23
26 Nauru 16.56
27 Egypt, Arab Rep. 16.34
28 Eritrea 15.49
29 French Polynesia 14.55
30 Bahamas, The 12.86
31 Dominica 12.86
32 British Virgin Islands 12.73
33 Denmark 12.57
34 Japan 12.44
35 Palau 12.29
36 Antigua and Barbuda 12.19
37 Liberia 11.73
38 Iceland 11.31
39 Djibouti 11.07
40 New Caledonia 10.87
41 Philippines 10.52
42 Latvia 10.23
43 Malaysia 10.13
44 Vanuatu 10.11
45 Gabon 9.53
46 Jamaica 9.15
47 Albania 9.15
48 Tunisia 8.94
49 Indonesia 8.82
50 Samoa 8.80
51 Bangladesh 8.38
52 Puerto Rico (US) 8.06
53 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 8.06
54 Monaco 7.90
55 Papua New Guinea 7.56
56 St. Kitts and Nevis 7.45
57 Hong Kong SAR, China 7.29
58 Benin 7.25
59 Bermuda 7.23
60 Ecuador 7.22
61 Norway 7.15
62 Senegal 7.03
63 Oman 6.84
64 Libya 6.83
65 Myanmar 6.81
66 Qatar 6.75
67 Cabo Verde 6.45
68 Northern Mariana Islands 6.28
69 Panama 6.00
70 Isle of Man 5.99
71 Grenada 5.85
72 Equatorial Guinea 5.66
73 Belgium 5.48
74 Sweden 5.13
75 Greece 5.11
76 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 5.11
77 Aruba 5.00
78 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 4.89
79 China 4.88
80 Kuwait 4.76
81 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 4.65
82 American Samoa 4.63
83 Iraq 4.59
84 Finland 4.56
85 Guinea-Bissau 4.54
86 Montenegro 4.41
87 Croatia 4.31
88 Gambia, The 4.31
89 Madagascar 4.29
90 Haiti 4.07
91 Venezuela, RB 4.07
92 Cyprus 4.04
93 Trinidad and Tobago 4.02
94 Spain 4.00
95 Georgia 3.85
96 Sri Lanka 3.83
97 Italy 3.82
98 Australia 3.60
99 Sierra Leone 3.54
100 Nigeria 3.53
101 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 3.52
102 New Zealand 3.29
103 Cote d'Ivoire 3.27
104 Comoros 3.22
105 Saudi Arabia 3.21
106 St. Lucia 3.18
107 Timor-Leste 2.97
108 Lebanon 2.95
109 Mozambique 2.80
110 Ireland 2.80
111 United Kingdom 2.75
112 Faroe Islands 2.67
113 Estonia 2.61
114 Turkiye 2.59
115 Cuba 2.50
116 Guam 2.39
117 Malta 2.38
118 Guinea 2.35
119 Colombia 2.34
120 Cameroon 2.29
121 Brazil 2.23
122 Barbados 2.21
123 Uruguay 2.20
124 Korea, Rep. 2.13
125 Ghana 2.13
126 France 2.08
127 Sao Tome and Principe 2.03
128 Cambodia 2.00
129 Costa Rica 2.00
130 Germany 1.99
131 United States 1.98
132 India 1.88
133 Dominican Republic 1.84
134 Honduras 1.82
135 Nicaragua 1.80
136 Mauritius 1.71
137 Israel 1.70
138 Curacao 1.68
139 Poland 1.59
140 Yemen, Rep. 1.58
141 Lithuania 1.54
142 Angola 1.53
143 Morocco 1.45
144 Canada 1.44
145 Slovenia 1.38
146 Bulgaria 1.34
147 Portugal 1.29
148 Algeria 1.25
149 Togo 1.13
150 Ukraine 1.07
151 Mexico 1.05
152 Argentina 1.03
153 Russian Federation 0.96
154 Chile 0.96
155 Congo, Rep. 0.94
156 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.93
157 El Salvador 0.87
158 Singapore 0.66
159 Peru 0.66
160 Sudan 0.51
161 Pakistan 0.45
162 Kenya 0.41
163 Syrian Arab Republic 0.40
164 Tanzania 0.37
165 Romania 0.33
166 Guatemala 0.21
167 West Bank and Gaza 0.21
168 South Africa 0.20
169 Namibia 0.19
170 Jordan 0.05
171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.01
172 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.01
173 Zimbabwe 0.00
174 Malawi 0.00
175 Luxembourg 0.00
176 Moldova 0.00
177 Liechtenstein 0.00
178 Mongolia 0.00
179 Lesotho 0.00
180 Lao PDR 0.00
181 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
182 Nepal 0.00
183 Kazakhstan 0.00
184 Niger 0.00
185 North Macedonia 0.00
186 Hungary 0.00
187 Paraguay 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 Belarus 0.00
207 Turkmenistan 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 Mali 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (EN.POP.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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