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Countries Ranked by Rural 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.RU.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 rural 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 1.40, 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

79.37

Europe & Central Asia

Netherlands

39.68

Latin America & Caribbean

Bahamas, The

69.54

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Bahrain

17.58

North America

Bermuda

18.02

South Asia

Maldives

76.57

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

25.07

Rank Country Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
1 Marshall Islands 79.37
2 Maldives 76.57
3 Bahamas, The 69.54
4 Tuvalu 68.02
5 Kiribati 67.18
6 Turks and Caicos Islands 62.87
7 Cayman Islands 49.39
8 British Virgin Islands 40.58
9 Netherlands 39.68
10 French Polynesia 29.78
11 Seychelles 25.07
12 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 19.97
13 Gambia, The 18.69
14 Bermuda 18.02
15 Bahrain 17.58
16 American Samoa 17.39
17 Tonga 16.69
18 Antigua and Barbuda 16.45
19 Guinea-Bissau 15.97
20 Palau 15.66
21 Cuba 14.84
22 St. Martin (French part) 14.20
23 Macao SAR, China 14.10
24 Northern Mariana Islands 12.59
25 Denmark 12.57
26 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 12.49
27 Belize 12.26
28 Viet Nam 12.25
29 Bangladesh 10.71
30 Qatar 10.65
31 Fiji 8.18
32 Kuwait 8.14
33 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 8.05
34 Nauru 7.62
35 St. Kitts and Nevis 7.47
36 Indonesia 7.44
37 Solomon Islands 7.26
38 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 6.94
39 Hong Kong SAR, China 6.77
40 Singapore 6.60
41 Curacao 6.41
42 Malaysia 6.37
43 Trinidad and Tobago 6.30
44 Aruba 6.25
45 Suriname 6.21
46 Nicaragua 5.88
47 Grenada 5.80
48 New Caledonia 5.34
49 Cabo Verde 5.31
50 Sierra Leone 5.20
51 Guyana 5.15
52 Greenland 5.10
53 Malta 5.08
54 Brunei Darussalam 4.91
55 Puerto Rico (US) 4.79
56 Guam 4.60
57 New Zealand 4.58
58 Myanmar 4.46
59 Honduras 4.46
60 Panama 4.42
61 Senegal 4.26
62 Vanuatu 4.18
63 Philippines 4.14
64 Papua New Guinea 3.83
65 Jamaica 3.75
66 United Kingdom 3.72
67 Belgium 3.69
68 El Salvador 3.56
69 Albania 3.52
70 St. Lucia 3.52
71 Thailand 3.46
72 Isle of Man 3.43
73 United Arab Emirates 3.43
74 Estonia 3.40
75 Comoros 3.37
76 Sao Tome and Principe 3.29
77 Greece 3.26
78 Germany 3.07
79 Sri Lanka 3.05
80 Italy 2.92
81 Costa Rica 2.87
82 Iraq 2.82
83 Faroe Islands 2.76
84 Mexico 2.66
85 Mauritius 2.65
86 Dominica 2.59
87 Korea, Rep. 2.54
88 Dominican Republic 2.29
89 Haiti 2.11
90 Mozambique 2.05
91 Nigeria 2.00
92 Samoa 1.99
93 Ireland 1.97
94 Iceland 1.85
95 Barbados 1.82
96 Cyprus 1.80
97 Latvia 1.74
98 Cambodia 1.72
99 Norway 1.56
100 Portugal 1.55
101 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 1.53
102 Venezuela, RB 1.53
103 Chile 1.52
104 Timor-Leste 1.52
105 Croatia 1.49
106 Japan 1.48
107 Gabon 1.42
108 United States 1.40
109 Romania 1.37
110 France 1.36
111 Guinea 1.34
112 Georgia 1.31
113 Pakistan 1.30
114 Eritrea 1.27
115 Tunisia 1.26
116 Monaco 1.24
117 Madagascar 1.24
118 Ecuador 1.23
119 Finland 1.18
120 Colombia 1.12
121 Mauritania 1.07
122 India 1.03
123 Egypt, Arab Rep. 1.02
124 Poland 0.99
125 Liberia 0.97
126 Sweden 0.93
127 Benin 0.92
128 Brazil 0.84
129 Ukraine 0.78
130 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.76
131 Equatorial Guinea 0.75
132 Oman 0.75
133 Australia 0.72
134 Guatemala 0.72
135 Djibouti 0.71
136 Russian Federation 0.67
137 Lithuania 0.67
138 Spain 0.65
139 Canada 0.64
140 Gibraltar 0.64
141 Argentina 0.61
142 Ghana 0.61
143 Montenegro 0.59
144 Uruguay 0.58
145 Turkiye 0.49
146 Cote d'Ivoire 0.48
147 Libya 0.47
148 China 0.46
149 Cameroon 0.45
150 Yemen, Rep. 0.37
151 Saudi Arabia 0.36
152 Togo 0.35
153 Peru 0.29
154 Kenya 0.27
155 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.24
156 Congo, Rep. 0.23
157 Lebanon 0.23
158 Namibia 0.20
159 Morocco 0.18
160 Tanzania 0.17
161 Israel 0.17
162 Angola 0.15
163 South Africa 0.11
164 Bulgaria 0.10
165 Sudan 0.08
166 Slovenia 0.04
167 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.03
168 West Bank and Gaza 0.02
169 Algeria 0.02
170 Syrian Arab Republic 0.02
171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.01
172 Jordan 0.00
173 Zimbabwe 0.00
174 Mongolia 0.00
175 Mali 0.00
176 Malawi 0.00
177 Luxembourg 0.00
178 Nepal 0.00
179 Liechtenstein 0.00
180 Lesotho 0.00
181 Niger 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 Moldova 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (AG.LND.EL5M.RU.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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